Citizens, Strangers and Indigenous Peoples: Multiple Constructions and Consequences of Rights, Resources and People

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	von Benda-Beckmann, Franz
Conference:	International Conference Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism
Location:	Mexico City, Mexico
Conf. Date:	July 29 - August 5
Date:	1993
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8282
Sector:	Social Organization
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Subject(s):	indigenous institutions common law culture--comparative analysis
Abstract:	"Human beings become citizens, strangers or indigenous peoples by cognitive and normative constructions. In all societies human beings and collectivities are typified and endowed with a special status to which is attached a wide array of rights, obligations, and ranges of normatively acknowledged autonomy and self-determination. Such typifications may be used as important constituent elements of all-encompassing normative systems. They are also regularly made up ad hoc in routinized life situations and in problematic situations, at interpretations of existing general types or as innovative constructions."

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