The governance palimpsest: order maintenance in Southeast Burma

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Focus on Karen refugees....."The force of habit, the awe of traditional command and a sentimental attachment to it, the desire to satisfy public opinion - all combine to make custom be obeyed for its own sake. In this the ?savages? do not differ from the members of any self-contained community with a limited horizon, whether this be an Eastern European ghetto, an Oxford college, or a Fundamentalist Middle West community. But love of tradition, conformism and the sway of custom account but to a very partial extent for obedience to rules among dons, savages, peasants, or Junkers. [. . .] in the main these rules are followed because their practical utility is recognized by reason and testified by experience." (Malinowski 1926).....Re the attached sales flyer for the book, the publishers say that a paperback version will be out in July or August.

Creator/author: 

Kirsten McConnachie

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"Governing Refugees - Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism" (Chapter 4)

Date of Publication: 

2014-00-00

Date of entry: 

2015-02-24

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English

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