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  • Chapter 4 - Taking the Laity to Court

  • G. R. Evans, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Crown, Mitre and People in the Nineteenth Century
    Published online:
    14 September 2021
    Print publication:
    23 September 2021, pp 202-241

  • Summary

    This chapter turns to the experiences of the laity when they found themselves in ecclesiastical courts in disputes over marriage, wills and burial, disorderly behaviour, or unacceptable use of language: speech crimes: brawling, defamation and blasphemy. It looks at examples of the costs and consequences to the laity of finding themselves in ecclesiastical courts, and the role of the debtors’ prisons.

  • Fighting on Christmas: brawling as self-governance in rural Peru

  • Edwar E. Escalante, Raymond J. March
  • Journal:
    Journal of Institutional Economics / Volume 16 / Issue 3 / June 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 September 2019, pp. 355-368

  • This paper analyzes the Peruvian highland tradition of Takanakuy, a public brawling ritual occurring each Christmas to resolve conflicts between local community members. We argue that Takanakuy provides an effective way for locals to resolve disputes that Peru's formal judicial system is unable or unwilling to settle. Using insights from ethnographic fieldwork, journalistic articles, reports, and academic sources, we find that brawling during Takanakuy encourages social cooperation by preventing potential violence and offering community members a credible mechanism of law enforcement in an orderly fashion with social acceptance.