Towards an anthropological understanding of political and legal change
The pre-colonial nagari
Minangkabau under colonial government
Japanese occupation, independence and post-colonial transformation until 1983
Centralised government at its zenith
Reformasi: constitutional reforms and regional autonomy
Creating new nagari structures
The return to the nagari: smooth transitions
Uneasy transformations
Governing the village
New dynamics in property rights
Never ending disputes
Property law reconstituted, uncertainty perpetuated
Old issues revisited: Adat, Islam and Minangkabau identity politics
Decentralisation, the transformation of the nagari and the dynamics of legal pluralism: some conclusions.