Paperback reprint of "Law in Culture and Society"? (Nader)

Danny Yee (danny@STAFF.CS.SU.OZ.AU)
Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:49:18 +1000

The University of California Press is considering republishing in
paperback a book edited by UC Berkeley anthropologist Laura Nader
called Law in Culture and Society (Aldine, 1969) based on two
international Wenner-Gren conferences. They'd like to know what
interest there would be in this (particularly as a course text or
supplementary reading). More information about the book is appended.

The person who'd like to know about this is

Charlene M. Woodcock
Paperback Editor
University of California Press
charlene.woodcock@ucop.edu

(I've set the Reply-To: field to point to her, so you should be able to
just reply to this message.)

Danny Yee.

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Nader would write a new introduction. Contents are:
Part I CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIES
Introduction, P. H. Gulliver
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, Andr=E9 J. F. K=F6bb=
en
Ontology of the Judicial Thought of the Kabr=E9 of Northern Togo, Raymond Ve=
rdier
Struck by Speech: The Yakan Concept of Litigation, Charles O. Frake

Part II LAW AND INNOVATION IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIES
Introduction, James Gibbs, Jr.
Law & Personality: Signposts for a New Direction, James L. Gibss, Jr.
Structural Change & Primitive Law: Consequences of a Papuan Legal Case,
Leopold Pospisil
Uniformity & Variation in Chief-Made Law: A Tswana Case Study, Isaac Schaper=
a
Constitutional Ambiguities & the British Administration of Royal Careers
among the Bemba of Zambia, Richard P. Werbner

Part III CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN WESTERN SOCIETIES
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
Hill Kay
Cases, Courts, and Congestion, Gresham M. Sykes

Part 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

Bibliography
Contributors
Index