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Anachronism, Agency, and the Contextualisation of Adat: Van Vollenhoven’s Analyses in Light of Struggles Over Resources
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology ( IF 0.980 ) Pub Date : 2019-10-09 , DOI: 10.1080/14442213.2019.1670242
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

This article discusses the conceptual and analytical contributions of the Dutch scholar Cornelis van Vollenhoven to the study of Indonesian adat law. He argued from a politically inspired concern about gross colonial exploitation in the Dutch East Indies that this was based on flawed understandings of local legal orders. This stimulated him to design a conceptual framework to capture the characteristics of these legal orders, called adat law. His perceptiveness to the distortions caused by using Western legal concepts to describe customary laws was unique for the time, and so was his attention to the various contexts other than in disputes in which adat law was used. This renders his work of importance not only for lawyers but also for social scientists. The article discusses the criticism against his academic work and suggests that despite some major weaknesses, some criticisms are anachronistic as they concerned earlier or later scholars rather than the work of van Vollenhoven himself. The article shows how debates about indigenous rights and the decentralisation policies after the fall of the Soeharto regime have stimulated a renewed interest in adat and adat law. It is argued that van Vollenhoven’s conceptual framework is still of use, but only if it is expanded and set into a broader analysis of migration, exploitation, and power relations.



中文翻译:

过时,代理和阿达特语境化:范·沃伦霍芬(Van Vollenhoven)基于资源争夺的分析

本文讨论了荷兰学者Cornelis van Vollenhoven对印度尼西亚阿塔特法研究的概念和分析贡献。他从对荷属东印度群岛总殖民地剥削的政治启发引起的担忧中辩称,这是基于对当地法律秩序的错误理解。这激发了他设计一个概念框架来捕捉这些法律命令的特征,称为阿达特法。他对使用西方法律概念描述习惯法所造成的歪曲的洞察力在当时是独一无二的,因此他对各种情况的关注也很独特,除了在使用阿塔特法的纠纷中。这使他的工作不仅对律师而且对社会科学家也很重要。这篇文章讨论了对他的学术著作的批评,并提出,尽管存在一些重大缺陷,但某些批评是过时的,因为它们关注的是早晚的学者,而不是范·沃伦霍芬本人的作品。该文章表明,在Soeharto政权垮台后,有关土著人民权利和权力下放政策的辩论如何激发了人们对adat和adat法律的新兴趣。有人认为,范·沃伦霍芬的概念框架仍然有用,但前提是必须将其扩展并纳入对移民,剥削和权力关系的更广泛分析中。该文章表明,在Soeharto政权垮台后,有关土著人民权利和权力下放政策的辩论如何激发了人们对adat和adat法律的新兴趣。有人认为,范·沃伦霍芬的概念框架仍然有用,但前提是必须将其扩展并纳入对移民,剥削和权力关系的更广泛分析中。该文章表明,在Soeharto政权垮台后,有关土著人民权利和权力下放政策的辩论如何激发了人们对Adat和Adat法律的新兴趣。有人认为,范·沃伦霍芬的概念框架仍然有用,但前提是必须将其扩展并纳入对移民,剥削和权力关系的更广泛分析中。

更新日期:2019-10-09
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