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What does rule of law look like from beyond an Anglo-American perspective? This Commentary excavates a subterranean strand of Singapore's rule of law discourse – rule of law as the necessary subordination of 'the people' – to argue that colonial ideologies are inevitably perpetuated and revitalized when the postcolony adopts rule of law as a pillar of the nation-making project.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Plates -- Maps -- 1. VILLAGE, LINEAGE, AND CLAN -- 2. FAMILY -- 3. SOCIAL STATUS, POWER, AND GOVERNMENT -- 4. RELATIONS BETWEEN LINEAGES -- 5. GEOMANCY AND ANCESTOR WORSHIP -- 6. LINEAGES IN CHINA -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL POSTSCRIPT -- LIST OF WORKS CITED -- INDEX.

Taking the Nicaraguan bourgeoisie during the Sandinista revolution and immediately afterwards as an example, the author discusses the articulation of class interests and the way kinship structures introduce specific features into collective political behaviour and into the access of particular groups to state power

Access of the bourgeoisie to state power during and immediately after the Sandinista revolution.

I found Kunkel's article, "The Pomo Kin Group and the Political Unit in Aboriginal California," to be most interesting and stimulating (see Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Journal). I do trust that, even though only an interloping Africanist of sorts, I may be allowed to offer some criticism of certain of his conclusions. Insofar as I am qualified to say, I found his ethnographic case for the existence of "ambilocal residential kingroups as… basic [Pomo] political subdivisions" quite convincing. My reservations primarily concern his contention that the finding is inconsistent with the existence and/or political significance of unilineal kin groups.