From Taboo Habits to the Law Origin Movement

Author: Wang Xuehui
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Publish Date: 1998-09-01
Features: This book primarily explores the customary law culture of ethnic minorities in southern China, especially those in southwestern China. Can the research findings of this regional culture be generalized as the common characteristics of customary law culture among China's ethnic minorities? For the accuracy and convenience of the study, the author has discussed the north-south differences when dividing the cultural circles of customary law among ethnic minorities. The customary laws within the various "ethnic law cultural circles" studied in this book are representative, and the principles and patterns revealed and elaborated have universal significance for understanding the origin and evolution of law. This is because the content of law is determined by the social formation it belongs to, meaning that the general characteristics of legal culture under the same social formation should be the same. The differences in customary law culture between northern and southern ethnic minorities are also the next topic to be studied.