This article is about the recognition of personhood when death occurs in early life. Drawing from anthropological perspectives on personhood at the beginnings and ends of life, it examines the implications of competing religious and customary definitions of personhood for a small sample of young British Pakistani Muslim women who experienced miscarriage and stillbirth. It suggests that these wo...

Transitional justice has typically relied on a handful of mechanisms, including trials, truth commissions, and reparations programmes, in seeking justice after conflict. In many societies, however, these mechanisms have less salience and value than do traditional practices of justice. Often, this occurs in large part because these transitional justice mechanisms have been imported and the commu...

The existence of customary land in the KadieLiya law community is still recognized legally formal as stipulated Article 18 B paragraph (2) 1945 Constitution, Constitution 28I 3, Law No. 5 1960 concerning Basic Regulations on Agrarian Principles (UUPA), 41 1999 Forestry, 39 2014 Plantations, 26 2007 Spatial Planning, 32 2009 Environmental Protection and Management, 23 Regional Government, 6 Vill...