As anthropologist, I am interested in observe indigenous social networks and their communication schemes. As United Nations consultant and University researcher I wrote some docs on double flux communication (top-down vs. bottom-up / State-indigenous communities), Communication for Peace and Ethnocommunication (Ethnic media). To start, you could see "Comunicar la paz" book or "The Ethnic Dilemma: Mass Communication and Native People in Colombia" article on my profile.
Dear Barbara, if you're interested in the South-Asian and South-East-Asian regions, the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) might be a useful contact. Here's their website:
An interesting article by Mark Suchman was published in '89 (I think) about property law in pre-literate societies. It was in either the Harvard or Yale Law Review.
For info on the aboriginal peoples of India, you may contact Indian Institute of Dalit Studies and about a dozen Tribal Research and Training Centres such as the ones in Ahmedabad and Hyderabad. They all have their websites. Right now there is a conference going on at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, on Dalit Literature and Art (www.dalitstudies.org.in)
Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi (PhD), Professor Emeritus.
Swahili (with Bantu Linguistics & East African Area Studies).
Dept. of Linguistics & Philology.
Uppsala University, Box 635,
SE-751 26 Uppsala, Sweden.
Visiting address: Thunbergsvägen 3, Rum 9-2021 (Emeriti)
Visiting Professor, School of Languages, State University of Zanzibar (SUZA, since 2012). Guest Professor (August-October 2014, February-April 2015), Centre for Arabic & African Studies (CAAS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India.
Founding Member & Secretary (1990-2012), Nordic Association of African Studies (NAAS). Member, Editorial Board, Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS, Helsinki/Finland) and Journal of Humanities, University of Dodoma, Tanzania. Member, Advisory Board, Language Documentation and Description (LDD), Institute of Language & Communication Studies, NTNU, Trondheim University, Norway (Jan 2009 – July 2014).
Member, International Scientific Committee/ISC, Slave Route Project: History and Memory for Dialogue, Unesco, Paris.
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http://www.urosario.edu.co/urosario_files/3a/3a3ccef9-bcde-4c21-bfcf-35cae97d5c48.pdfThis is a confrontation between aboriginal or native people legislation and national legislation (in Colombia)