Laura Nader is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include No Access to Law: Alternatives in the American Justice System, Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village, and Naked Science.

• Preface to the Paperback EditionPrefaceIntroduction, Laura NaderPART I CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIESIntroduction, P.H. GULLIVER Dispute Settlement Without Courts: The N Dendeuli 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, Andre J.F.Kobben Ontology of the Judicial Thought of the Kahre of Northern Togo,Raymond Verdier Struck by Speech: The Yakan Concept of Litigation, Charles 0. Frake PART II LAW AND INNOVATION IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIESIntroduction, JAMES L. GIBBS, JR. Law and Personality: Signposts for a New Direction, James L. Gibbs, Jr. Structural Change and Primitive Law: Consequences of a Papuan Legal Case, Leopold Pospisil Uniformity and Variation in Chief-Made Law: A Tswana Case StudyIsaac Schapera Constitutional Ambiguities and the British Administration of Royal Careers Among the Bemba of ZambiaRichard P. Werbner PART III CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN WESTERN SOCIETIESIntroduction, VILHELM AUBERT Law as a Way of Resolving Conflicts: The Case of a Small Industrialized SocietyVILHELM AUBERT The Offer of a Free Home: A Case Study in the Family Law of the PoorHerma H. Kay Cases, Courts, and CongestionGresham M. Sykes PART IV COMPARATIVE STUDIESIntroduction, SALLY FALK MOORE Concepts in the Comparative Study of Tribal LawMax Gluckman Descent and Legal PositionSally Falk Moore Ethnography and Comparison in Legal Anthropology Paul Bohannan Bibliography Contributors Index

Laura Nader is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include No Access to Law: Alternatives in the American Justice System, Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village, and Naked Science.

• Preface to the Paperback EditionPrefaceIntroduction, Laura NaderPART I CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIESIntroduction, P.H. GULLIVER Dispute Settlement Without Courts: The N Dendeuli 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, Andre J.F.Kobben Ontology of the Judicial Thought of the Kahre of Northern Togo,Raymond Verdier Struck by Speech: The Yakan Concept of Litigation, Charles 0. Frake PART II LAW AND INNOVATION IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIESIntroduction, JAMES L. GIBBS, JR. Law and Personality: Signposts for a New Direction, James L. Gibbs, Jr. Structural Change and Primitive Law: Consequences of a Papuan Legal Case, Leopold Pospisil Uniformity and Variation in Chief-Made Law: A Tswana Case StudyIsaac Schapera Constitutional Ambiguities and the British Administration of Royal Careers Among the Bemba of ZambiaRichard P. Werbner PART III CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN WESTERN SOCIETIESIntroduction, VILHELM AUBERT Law as a Way of Resolving Conflicts: The Case of a Small Industrialized SocietyVILHELM AUBERT The Offer of a Free Home: A Case Study in the Family Law of the PoorHerma H. Kay Cases, Courts, and CongestionGresham M. Sykes PART IV COMPARATIVE STUDIESIntroduction, SALLY FALK MOORE Concepts in the Comparative Study of Tribal LawMax Gluckman Descent and Legal PositionSally Falk Moore Ethnography and Comparison in Legal Anthropology Paul Bohannan Bibliography Contributors Index