As conflict resolution becomes increasingly important to urban and rural peoples around the globe, the value of this classic anthology of studies of process, structure, comparison, and perception of the law is acclaimed by policy makers as well as anthropologists throughout the world. The case studies include evidence from Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, and they reflect the important shift from a concern with what law is to what law does.
As conflict resolution becomes increasingly important to urban and rural peoples around the globe, the value of this classic anthology of studies of process, structure, comparison, and perception of the law is acclaimed by policy makers as well as anthrop
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Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Introduction, Laura Nader
PART I CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIES
Introduction, P.H. GULLIVER
Dispute Settlement Without Courts: The N Dendeuli of Southern Tanzania,
P. H. Gulliver
Styles of Court Procedure: To Make the Balance,
Laura Nader Keresan Pueblo Law, E. Adamson Hoebel
Law at the Village Level: The Cottica Djuka of Surinam,
Andre J.F.Kobben
Ontology of the Judicial Thought of the Kahre of Northern Togo,
Raymond Verdier
Struck by Speech: The Yakan Concept of Litigation,
Charles 0. Frake
PART II LAW AND INNOVATION IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIES
Introduction, JAMES L. GIBBS, JR.
Law and Personality: Signposts for a New Direction,
James L. Gibbs, Jr.
Structural Change and Primitive Law: Consequences of a Papuan Legal Case,
Leopold Pospisil
Uniformity and Variation in Chief-Made Law: A Tswana Case Study
Isaac Schapera
Constitutional Ambiguities and the British Administration of Royal Careers Among the
Bemba of Zambia
Richard P. Werbner
PART III CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN WESTERN SOCIETIES
Introduction, VILHELM AUBERT
Law as a Way of Resolving Conflicts: The Case of a Small Industrialized Society
VILHELM AUBERT
The Offer of a Free Home: A Case Study in the Family Law of the Poor
Herma H. Kay
Cases, Courts, and Congestion
Gresham M. Sykes
PART IV COMPARATIVE STUDIES
Introduction, SALLY FALK MOORE
Concepts in the Comparative Study of Tribal Law
Max Gluckman
Descent and Legal Position
Sally Falk Moore
Ethnography and Comparison in Legal Anthropology
Paul Bohannan
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Sobre el autor
Laura Nader is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include No Access to Law: Alternatives in the American Justice System, Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village, and Naked Science.
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