How do Islamic courts work? What sorts of cultural understandings inform judicial process and litigants' strategies? How do women's claims fare? Do these courts promote social tolerance? And how do states use them to consolidate power...more details Format:Paperback Pages:339
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Aihwa Ong;Michael G Peletz
ISBN:9780520088610
This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens...more details Format:Paperback Pages:314
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Michael G Peletz
ISBN:9780415931601
This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:352
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Michael G Peletz
ISBN:9780415931618
This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Michael G Peletz
ISBN:9780691095073
How do Islamic courts work? What sorts of cultural understandings inform judicial process and litigants' strategies? How do women's claims fare? Do these courts promote social tolerance? And how do states use them to consolidate power...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:360