Fascinating book on the introduction of European-based law into a culture that had no reason to understand it, in its communitarian consensual approach to justice. Well-written and badly proofed, but worth the read.
Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923.
Grant, Shelagh D. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002.
- 1923 Canadian Murder Trial at Pond Inlet.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
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Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923.
Grant, Shelagh D. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002.
- Arctic Reading: Inuit and other indigenous people
Preview
Fascinating book on the introduction of European-based law into a culture that had no reason to understand it, given its communitarian consensual approach to justice. Well-written and badly proofed, but worth the read.