Water Rights and Legal Pluralism: Some Basics of a Legal Anthropological Approach

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Spiertz, H. L. Joep
Conference:	Crossing Boundaries, the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Vancouver, BC, Canada
Conf. Date:	June 10-14
Date:	1998
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1298
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	East Asia
Subject(s):	IASC common pool resources irrigation property rights legal systems indigenous institutions pluralism
Abstract:	"The case of irrigation in the Balinese village of Blahpane serves to introduce concepts of legal pluralism. This kind of legal anthropology critiques and reconceives the relations between law and social behavior. The conceptual tools of legal pluralism can improve understanding of water rights, starting from study of local experience amid multiple legal and normative repertoires. The strategic maintenance of subak irrigation rituals, by farmers and government, further illustrates the processes of legal pluralism."

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