Spaces of Law and Custom
In: Space, materiality and the normative
Introduction: Impure theories of custom and law -- PART 1: Custom, law and legality -- 1. Custom and primitivity: On the unity of the legal technique -- 2. A three-dimensional ontology of customs -- 3. Land tenure and irrigation in North Vietnam's mountainous regions: Rights outside the law? -- PART 2: Codifying customs in the face of social change -- 4. Oral custom: At the origin or at the fringes of law? -- 5. A written customary law among the Rwa in Tanzania -- 6. Are all informal normative facts custom? The ideological dimensions of company customs -- 7. Law, custom and social change in New Caledonia: A case-study: Gender reassignment on the customary civil register -- PART 3: Custom, law and property rights -- 8. When land and sky turn French: Is there any place left for the Bunong when private land property disrupts customary spaces along the Vietnamese-Cambodian border? -- 9. Proof and test: The construction of customary land in New Caledonia -- 10. Customary land rules in French Provence from the Ancien Régime to our days.