Costum

Costum is rooted in local practices - it is "lex loci". It can be considered as practice and as law.

# Features

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At the interface betweem law and agrarian practice we find custom. (Thompson, 1993:97) Agrarian costum was never a fact, it was an ambience. I t may best be understood with the aid of Bourdieu's concept of "habitus" - a lived environment comprised of practices, inherited expectations, rules which both determined limits to usages and disclosed possibilities, norms and sanctions both of law and neighbourhood pressures.' (p: 102)

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# See also

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# Sources

E.P. Thompson (1993): Customs in Common, Studies in Traditional Popular Culture, New Press. pdf , html