Adat Laws in Modern Malaya: Land Tenure, Traditional Government and Religion

A major contribution of customary law research, growing in part out of colonial efforts to understand the societies Europeans were trying to control, is a consistent refusal to take legal rules at face value apart from their cultural and social context. This book follows in a long and respectable tradition of research on Malaysian and Indonesian customary adat law.

Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press. 1972