Iraya Customary Law

In a tight-knit community such as the Iraya of Mindoro, Philippines, a dispute is easily solved using boiling water and a stone. they don't need to pay lawyers, fill in forms or wait months to get their case heard in court. Among the Iraya, crime is contained by the threat of public humiliation.

http://www.geocities.com/rzmartinez/custom.html

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Regional Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Communal Land Management in Asia

Asian Development Bank (ADB) joins indigenous peoples and development agencies in celebrating the completion of the ‘International Decade of World’s Indigenous Peoples’. As part of this celebration, Environment and Social Safeguards Division (RSES) and Human Resources Division (BPHR) organized this workshop to highlight the distinctive relationship between indigenous peoples and their habitat through the presentation of in-depth case studies in Asia on communal land management.
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2004/Regional-Workshop-on-IP/

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Anthropologist's learning journey, 

Iraya Journal, 

Culinary Anthropology, 

Charter for Human Responsibilities, 

Solidarity Economy, and 

Western Visayas Magazine (WVMags).