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Laura Nader is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include No Access to Law: Alternatives in the American Justice System, Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village , and Naked Science . "A classic collection in the anthropology of law. While some exceptionally good descriptive work is presented, the volume is particularly valuable in providing a range of thoughtful, engaged, and empirically grounded theoretical explorations of issues in the comparative study of law and conflict."—Donald Brenneis, author of Dangerous Words Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface Introduction, Laura Nader PART I CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIES Introduction, P.H. GULLIVER Dispute Settlement Without Courts: The N Dendeuli 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 Kahre of Northern Togo, Raymond Verdier Struck by Speech: The Yakan Concept of Litigation, Charles 0. Frake PART 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 Papuan Legal Case, Leopold Pospisil Uniformity and Variation in Chief-Made Law: A Tswana Case Study Isaac Schapera Constitutional Ambiguities and the British Administration of Royal Careers Among the Bemba of Zambia Richard P. Werbner PART 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 Gresham M. Sykes PART 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 Bibliography Contributors Index ...
