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Virginia Martin, Law and Custom in the Steppe: The Kazakhs of the Middle Horde and Russian Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2001, 244 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Martina Winkler*
Affiliation:
University of Leipzig

Extract

Virginia Martin tells the fascinating story of the change of legal culture that occurred among the Middle Horde Kazakh nomads under Russian colonial rule in the nineteenth century. Her essential argument is based on the premise of conceptualizing law as a cultural system. This leads her to describe “law in action” in a convincing way, as she shows in her book the flexible use of law by various social groups.

Type
Book Reviews
Copyright
Copyright © 2003 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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