CUSTOMARY DOMINANT OF UKRAINIAN FOLK BALLAD

Customary Laws, Folk Culture, and Social Lifeworlds: Albanian Studies in Critical Perspective

The Institute of Comparative Law in Belgrade launched this year a Festschrift in honour of Valtazar Bogišić (1834–1908), a jurist, law historian and folklorist. His most notable works are researches on family structure and he is primarily known as a codifier of civil law in Montenegro, which he prepared on the basis of a voluminous questionnaire. One of his main informants was the leader of the...

The Formation of Customary Law

An Approach to the Indexing of Ballad Tunes

Comparative studies of British-American ballad tunes have in most cases been based on transcriptions of a single stanza of each ballad analyzed. Folk singers rarely sing any two stanzas of a ballad in exactly the same manner. Nor i s a second rendition of a ballad likely to be an exact reproduction of the f i rs t rendition. Thus it cannot be expected that the application of this method will pr...

The Emerging Customary Law of Space

The Political Economy of “Aboriginal Customary Law”

Discussions about aboriginal-non-aboriginal relations in Canada have stressed the need to recognize “aboriginal customary law” in self-government arrangements. It is maintained that many aspects of “native law” differ radically from the legal systems that emerged in European countries, and so imposing Canadian conceptions of law on aboriginal communities is an obstacle to native self-determinat...