Abstract: Part 1 States of the art: the anthropological study of law, Laura Nader the current state of legal ethnology and its future tasks, Jean Poirier substance and process - reappraising the premises of the anthropology of law, Daisy Hilse Dwyer historical studies of legal change, June Starr and Jane F. Collier. Part 2 Legal theory, anthropology, anthropological theory and law: anthropology and legal theory, G. MacCormack legal pluralism, Sally Engle Merry theory in anthropology since the sixties, Sherry B. Ortner the individual, community and society - rights and responsibilities from an anthropological perspective, Colin M. Turnbull. Part 3 The new ethnography: personal responsibility, and image of person and self among the Bimin-Kuskusmin of Papua New Guinea, Fitz Jong Porter Poole discovering social control, Marilyn Strathern Bobotio and Pulu - Melaneisan law - normative order or way of life?, Peter Sack just in time - temporality and the cultural legitimation of law, Carol J. Greenhouse law - a map of misreading, toward a postmodern conception of law, Boaventura De Sousa Santos. Part 4 Non-western perspectives: Africentric sciences for human liberation, Na'im Akbar is the notion of human rights a Western concept?, R. Panikkar three dichotomies of law - an analytical scheme of legal culture, Masaji Chiba law and custom in Melanesia, Bernard Narokobi the process of decision making in tribal courts, Tom Tso. Part 5 Courts, custom and anthropologists: the recognition of aboriginal customary law - pluralism beyond the colonial paradigm - a review article, Campbell MacLachlan native custom and official law in Hawaii, Mari J. Matsuda the Ifoga - the Samoan practice of seeking forgiveness for criminal behaviour, La'auli Filoali'i and Lyle Knowles culture and culpability - a study of contrasts, Alison Dundes Renteln the anthropologist as expert witness, Lawrence Rosen.
Publication Year: 1992
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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