قراءة كتاب Ifugao Law (In American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 15, No. 1)

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Ifugao Law
(In American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 15, No. 1)

Ifugao Law (In American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 15, No. 1)

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The monkalun or go-between      94

Testimony      95

Ordeals      96

Execution of justice      99

The paowa or truce      107

Termination of controversies: peace-making      108

An inter-village law      109

Appendices

Glossary      122

Explanation of plates      130


Preface

There is no law so strong as custom. How much more universal, willing, and spontaneous is obedience to the customary law that a necktie shall be worn with a stiff collar than is obedience to the ordained law against expectoration on sidewalks; notwithstanding that the latter has more basis in consideration of the public weal and even in aesthetics.

This little paper shows how a people having no vestige of constituted

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