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The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan

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The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan - Beyer, Judith
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Judith Beyer presents a finely textured ethnographic study that sheds new light on the legal and moral ordering of everyday life in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. Beyer shows how local Kyrgyz negotiate proper behavior and regulate disputes by invoking custom, known to the locals as salt. While salt is presented as age-old tradition, its invocation needs to be understood as a highly developed and flexible rhetorical strategy that people adapt to suit political, legal, economic, and religious environments.

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The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan 2016, University of Pittsburgh Press, PIttsburgh

ISBN-13: 9780822964209

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