A New Beginning of Law among Indigenous Peoples: Observations by a Legal Anthropologist

The Law's Beginnings

Volumn , Issue , 2021, Pages 181-220

  Hoekema, André J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1163/9789004481602_013     Document Type: Chapter

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