Laura Nader 
Law in Culture and Society [EPUB ebook] 

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 

关于作者

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.