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Law in culture and society, edited by Laura Nader.

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Law in culture and society, edited by Laura Nader.
Publication
Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co. [1969]

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Additional Authors
  • Nader, Laura,
  • Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Description
ix, 454 p. maps.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Ethnological jurisprudence
  • Law, Primitive
Note
  • Papers presented at a 2d Wenner-Gren conference held at Burg Wartenstein, Gloggnitz, Austria, Aug. 3-13, 1966.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 419-438.
Processing Action (note)
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Contents
Introduction / Laura Nader -- pt. I. Case studies of law in non-western societites. Dispute settlement without courts : the Ndendeuli 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 / André J.F. Köbben -- Ontology of the judicial thought of the Kabrè of northern Togo / Raymond Verdier -- Struck by speech : the Yakan concept of litigation / Charles O. Frake -- pt. 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 -- pt. III. Case studies of law in western society. 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 -- pt. 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.
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