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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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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