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Tables of Contents for Law in Culture and Society
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Paperback Edition
v
3
Preface
viii
Introduction
1
10
Laura Nader
PART I CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIES
11
158
Introduction
11
13
P. H. GULLIVER
Dispute Settlement Without Courts: The Ndendeuli of Southern Tanzania
24
45
P. H. Gulliver
Styles of Court Procedure: To Make the Balance
69
23
Laura Nader
Keresan Pueblo Law
92
25
E. Adamson Hoebel
Law at the Village Level: The Cottica Djuka of Surinam
117
24
Andre J.
F. Kobben
Ontology of the Judicial Thought of the Kabre of Northern Togo
141
6
Raymond Verdier
Struck by Speech: The Yakan Concept of Litigation
147
22
Charles O. Frake
PART II LAW AND INNOVATION IN NON-WESTREN SOCIETIES
169
104
Introduction
169
7
JAMES L. GIBBS, JR.
Law and Personality: Signposts for a New Direction
176
32
James L. Gibbs, Jr.
Structural Change and Primitive Law: Consequences of a Papuan Legal Case
208
22
Leopold Pospisil
Uniformity and Variation in Chief-Made Law: A Tswana Case Study
230
15
Isaac Schapera
Constitutional Ambiguities and the British Administration of Royal Careers Among the Bemba of Zambia
245
28
Richard P. Werbner
PART III CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN WESTERN SOCIETIES
273
64
Introduction
273
9
VILHELM AUBERT
Law as a Way of Resolving Conflicts: The Case of a Small Industrialized Society
282
22
VILHELM AUBERT
The Offer of a Free Home: A Case Study in the Family Law of the Poor
304
23
Herma H. Kay
Cases, Courts, and Congestion
327
10
Gresham M. Sykes
PART IV COMPARATIVE STUDIES
337
82
Introduction
337
12
SALLY FALK MOORE
Concepts in the Comparative Study of Tribal Law
349
25
Max Gluckman
Descent and Legal Position
374
27
Sally Falk Moore
Ethnography and Comparison in Legal Anthropology
401
18
Paul Bohannan
Bibliography
419
21
Contributors
440
4
Index
444