Law in Culture and Society
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Law in Culture and Society

  1. 460 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Law in Culture and Society

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520208339
eBook ISBN
9780520341807
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface to the Paperback Edition
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. PART I Case Studies of Law in Non-Western Societies
  9. Dispute Settlement Without Courts: The Ndendeuli of Southern Tanzania
  10. Styles of Court Procedure: To Make the Balance
  11. Kensan Pueblo Law
  12. Law at the Village Level: The Cottica Djuka of Surinam29
  13. Ontology of the Judicial Thought of the Kabre of Northern Togo
  14. Strucle by Speech: The Yakan Concept of Litigation
  15. PART II Law and Innovation in Non-Western Societies
  16. Law and Personality: Signposts for a New Direction
  17. Structural Change and Primitive Law: Consequences of a Papuan Legal Case
  18. Uniformity and Variation in Chief-Made Law: A Tswana Case Study
  19. Constitutional Ambiguities and the British Administration of Royal Careers Among the Bemba of Zambia100
  20. PART III Case Studies of Law in Western Societies
  21. Law as a Way of Resolving Conflicts: The Case of a Small Industrialized Society
  22. The Offer of a Free Home: A Case Study in the Family Law of the Poor
  23. Cases, Courts, and Congestion
  24. PART IV Comparative Studies
  25. Concepts in the Comparative Study of Tribal Law
  26. Descent and Legal Position
  27. Ethnography and Comparison in Legal Anthropology
  28. Bibliography
  29. Contributors
  30. <INDEX>Name Index
  31. <INDEX>Subject Index