Law and anthropology
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Law and anthropology
(The international library of essays in law and legal theory, . Legal cultures ; 3)
Dartmouth, c1992
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  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of articles on law and anthropology covers topics such as the current state of legal ethnology and its future tasks; legal theory, anthropology, anthropological theory and law; the "new" ethnography; non-Western perspectives; and courts, customs and anthropologists.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 States of the art: the anthropological study of law, Laura Nader
- the current state of legal ethnology and its future tasks, Jean Poirier
- substance and process - reappraising the premises of the anthropology of law, Daisy Hilse Dwyer
- historical studies of legal change, June Starr and Jane F. Collier. Part 2 Legal theory, anthropology, anthropological theory and law: anthropology and legal theory, G. MacCormack
- legal pluralism, Sally Engle Merry
- theory in anthropology since the sixties, Sherry B. Ortner
- the individual, community and society - rights and responsibilities from an anthropological perspective, Colin M. Turnbull. Part 3 The "new" ethnography: personal control, social responsibility, and image of person and self among the Bimin-Kuskusmin of Papua New Guinea, Fitz Jong Porter Poole
- discovering "social control", Marilyn Strathern
- Bobotio and Pulu - Melaneisan law - normative order or way of life?, Peter Sack
- just in time - temporality and the cultural legitimation of law, Carol J. Greenhouse
- law - a map of misreading, toward a postmodern conception of law, Boaventura De Sousa Santos. Part 4 Non-western perspectives: Africentric social sciences for human liberation, Na'im Akbar
- is the notion of human rights a Western concept?, R. Panikkar
- three dichotomies of law - an analytical scheme of legal culture, Masaji Chiba
- law and custom in Melanesia, Bernard Narokobi
- the process of decision making in tribal courts, Tom Tso. Part 5 Courts, custom and anthropologists: the recognition of aboriginal customary law - pluralism beyond the colonial paradigm - a review article, Campbell MacLachlan
- native custom and official law in Hawaii, Mari J. Matsuda
- the Ifoga - the Samoan practice of seeking forgiveness for criminal behaviour, La'auli Filoali'i and Lyle Knowles
- culture and culpability - a study of contrasts, Alison Dundes Renteln
- the anthropologist as expert witness, Lawrence Rosen.
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