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Resolving Conflict Within the Law: The Mardu Aborigines of Australia
2004,2003
Overview
Conflict is very much a part of Mardu society. As Robert Tonkinson shows, the Mardu can be verbally aggressive. Yet for the Mardu, consensual and peaceful outcomes to their conflicts are imperative to their long-term survival. Like the Hopi, they seek ways to counter potential violence that may arise in their conflicts. Tonkinson suggests that social organization and religion are the two pillars of their peaceful society. The Mardu inflict punishments on wrongdoers. Is it really violence (violation of the victim) if the \"victim\" accepts the punishment? Is the use of punishment an attribute of the overall peacefulness of the Mardu, or does it weaken their ideal to refrain from becoming aggressive? Of equal interest are the ways that the Mardu deal with potential conflicts with strangers. A stranger always represents an unknown quantity. Other societies discussed in this book use the fear of witchcraft and other supernatural beliefs to instill caution in dealing with strangers. The Mardu utilize the establishment of kinship ties with an outsider. This process is echoed in societies where interaction with strangers is common. One often finds a ritual wherein the two parties try to establish a kind of kinship tie-for example, fellow Freemason, \"old school tie,\" common sporting interest, locality of origin, and so on-before they begin to deal with any conflict.
