Governments in the Asia Pacific region states within which indigenous people dwell haveincreasingly turned to legal definitions of indigeneity and of indigenous laws andcustoms. However, these legal codifications bring into being not indigenous cultures per sebut a version of them that is refracted through Western legal culture. The impact of suchdevelopments on what anthropologists identify as non-Western law, landed-ness, andpolitical process in indigenous societies is the subject of the articles in this volume.
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