| Description |
x, 454 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Laura Nader -- Pt. I. Case Studies of Law in Non-Western Societies -- Introduction / P. H. Gulliver. Dispute Settlement Without Courts: The Ndendeuli 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 Kabre of Northern Togo / Raymond Verdier. Struck by Speech: The Yakan Concept of Litigation / Charles O. Frake -- Pt. 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 Papaun Legal Case / Leopold Pospisil. Uniformity and Variation in Chief-Made Law: A Tswana Case Study / Isaac Schapera |
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Constitutional Ambiguities and the British Administration of Royal Careers Among the Bemba of Zambia / Richard P. Werbner -- Pt. 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 / Greshma M. Sykes -- Pt. 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 |
| Notes |
Originally published: Chicago, Ill. : Aldine Pub., 1969 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-439) and indexes |
| Subject |
Ethnological jurisprudence.
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Law and anthropology.
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Law, Primitive.
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| Author |
Nader, Laura.
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| LC no. |
96034175 |
| ISBN |
0520208331 (alk. paper) |
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