Research Catalog

Title

Practicing ethnography in law : new dialogues, enduring methods / edited by June Starr and Mark Goodale.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Starr, June.
• Goodale, Mark

Description

xiii, 209 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Starr (formerly of the Indiana U. School of Law) and Goodale (anthropology, Emory U.) present 11 papers that discuss the application of anthropological ethnography methods to the analysis of legal disputes, structures, and cultures. The papers consider methods of participatory research, discuss fieldwork in a variety of settings, and explore some conceptual problems. The two concluding essays explore larger issues of the practice and understanding of legal ethnography. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Subject

• Ethnological jurisprudence
• Ethnology > Methodology

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Actes de congrès.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Feminist participatory research on legal consciousness / Susan F. Hirch -- Trekking processual planes before the rule of law / Philip C. Parnell -- Legal ethnography in an era of globalization / Mark Goodale -- Analyzing witchcraft beliefs / Jane F. Collier -- Exploring legal culture in law-avoidance societies / Robert L. Kidder -- Reconceptualizing research / Susan Biblier Coutin -- Ethnography in the archives / Salley Engle Merry -- Stories from the field / Herbert M. Kritzer -- Doing ethnography / Anne Griffiths -- Few thoughts on ethnography, history, and law / Lawrence M. Friedman -- Moving on, comrehending anthrpologies of law / Laura Nader.

ISBN

• 1403960704 (alk. paper)
• 1403960690

LCCN

^^2002032175

OCLC

• 50479307
• SCSB-10500956

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library