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Understanding disputes : the politics of argument

Title: Understanding disputes : the politics of argument / edited by Pat Caplan.
Publication: Providence, [R.I.] USA : Berg, 1995.

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Additional Authors

Caplan, Patricia.

Description

xx, 248 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

Are disputes ever really resolved, or do people need to find ways of accommodating them and living with the consequences? Can dispute settlement procedures at the local level be transferred to wider environments? In attempting to answer these questions, some of the foremost specialists in the anthropology of law and disputing behaviour examine how people in a variety of social settings, ranging from Ireland to East Africa, deal with quarrels and seek to resolve or accommodate them.
This stimulating volume should be of interest to anyone concerned about the huge increase in conflict in many parts of the world.

Series Statement

Explorations in anthropology

Uniform Title

Explorations in anthropology.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Preface: A Dedication to P. H. Gulliver / Pat Caplan and Marilyn Silverman -- 1. Introduction: Anthropology and the Study of Disputes / Pat Caplan -- 2. Imperfect Communications / Sally Falk Moore -- 3. Civilization and its Negotiations / Laura Nader -- 4. The Contentiousness of Disputes / Elizabeth Colson -- 5. Gentlemanly Values: Contesting Corruption Accusations in the Cities of London and Lagos in the mid-1950s / Christina Johnson -- 6. The 'Inhabitants' vs. the 'Sovereign': A Historical Ethnography of the Making of the 'Middle Class' in an Irish Corporate Borough, 1840-1 / Marilyn Silverman -- 7. The Milieu of Disputation: Managing Quarrels in East Nepal / Lionel Caplan -- 8. Disputing Human Passion: The Negotiation of the Meaning of Love among the Giriama of Kenya / David Parkin -- 9. 'Youth-Development': Conflict and Negotiations in an Urban Irish Youth Club / Stephen Gaetz -- 10. 'Law' and 'Custom': Marital Disputes on Northern Mafia Island, Tanzania / Pat Caplan.
11. Courts of Death among the Alur of Uganda / Aidan Southall.

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94034791

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries