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Legal anthropology : an introduction / James M. Donovan.
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Publication details:
Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, 2008.
Record id:
69452
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Subject:
Law and anthropology.
Contents:
Part I. General theoretical background
Chapter 1. Philosophical starting points
Chapter 2. Studying law in the field
Part II. Forerunners
Chapter 3. Natural law: description and reaction
Chapter 4. Sociology of law
Part III. Ethnographic foundations
The classic period
Chapter 5. Malinowski and reciprocity-based law
Chapter 6. Schapera and codification of indigenous law
Chapter 7. Hoebel and the rise of legal realism
Chapter 8. Gluckman and identification of legal universals
Chapter 9. Bohannan and relativism
Chapter 10. Pospisil and differentiating the institutions of social regulation
Postclassic ethnography
Chapter 11. Nader and processualism
Chapter 12. O'Barr and Conley and studying up
Part IV. Hightlights of comparative anthropology
Chapter 13. Cross-cultural comparison
Chapter 14. Dispute resolution
Chapter 15. Legal pluralism
Part V. Issues in applied legal anthropology
Chapter 16. Human rights
Chapter 17. Intellectual property rights
Chapter 18. The culture defense
Chapter 19. Terrorism
Part VI. Conclusions
Chapter 20. A fairness-centered legal anthropology
Chapter 21. Overview and prospects.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780759109834
Phys. description:
xx, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm