Law as process : an anthropological approach
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Law as process : an anthropological approach
（Classics in African anthropology）
LIT , James Currey, 2000
2nd ed
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Previous ed.: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978
Includes bibliographical references and index
This reprint published by arrangement with the International African Institute
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780852559109
Description
With a new introduction by Martin Chanock
This is a study of the role of law in African society. It is a work in the ethnology of law. Its central theme is that the same social processes which prevent the total regulation of society are those that re-shape and transform the efforts to regulate.
Sally Falk Moore's study was originally published in 1978. New edition published in association with the International African Institute
North America: Transaction Books; Germany: LitVerlag;
Table of Contents
- Uncertainties in situations, indeterminacies in culture
- law and social change - the semi-autonomous social field as an appropriate subject of study
- legal liability and evolutionary interpretation - some aspects of strict liability, self-help and collective responsibility
- comparative studies
- descent and legal position
- politics, procedures and norms in changing Chagga law
- law and anthropology.
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: hc ISBN 9783825844929
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This study of the role of law in society has become a standard work in the ethnology of law. The central theme of the book is that the same social processes which prevent the total regulation of society also reshape and transform efforts at partial regulation. In particular, the making of rules and social and symbolic order is as often matched by situational pressures to manipulate, circumvent, remake or replace the same, as it is to uphold them. Using both pre-industrial and modern settings, the book examines the basic tension between the idea that law constitutes a conscious and rational attempt to direct society and most thought in the social sciences, that there are underlying causes of social behaviour which are not fully in the conscious control of the actors. Over a period of time reglementary control can be only temporary, incomplete and its consequences not fully predictable. The study of reglementation is, therefore, one of partial orders and partial controls in the specific social contexts.
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: pb ISBN 9783825844936
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This study of the role of law in society has become a standard work in the ethnology of law. The central theme of the book is that social processes that prevent the total regulation of society also reshape and transform efforts at partial regulation. In particular, the making of rules and social or symbolic order is as often matched by situational pressures to manipulate, circumvent, remake or replace the same rules. Frequently, these pressures are as great as pressures to uphold rules.
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