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Concept of Social Justice in Tribal Society

其他書名	A Case of the Nyishi
出版	SSRN, 2017
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gp0AzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Generalizations about traditional society are always dangerous because of the distances of time and space that are involved. How far, for example, does traditional Nyishi society “coexist with” modern Nyishi society or is it wholly a thing of the past? The question is a difficult one. One cannot deny that there are many threads of continuity, linking the past with the present, and the old social order with the new, but how important are the elements of discontinuity? One of the assumptions behind this paper is that the discontinuities are of diminishing importance and that traditional concepts survive because they find a new dimension and a new application in the modern situation. Traditional Nyishi society is now history, mainly oral history, but that does not mean to say it can be ignored. On the contrary, to recognize traditional concepts and to understand their workings in the modern Nyishi society, it is first of all necessary to see them as part of a political and social order which no longer exists in its pure form. That is largely what I shall be doing in this paper.