Max Gluckman (1911-1975) was founder and head of the department of social anthropology and sociology at the University of Manchester. He is well known for his many books and articles on the peoples of South and Central Africa and on social anthropology in general. He was a political activist and was strongly and openly anti-colonial. || Sally Falk Moore is professor of anthropology emerita at Harvard University and affiliated professor at Harvard Law School. A specialist in legal and political anthropology, she has done fieldwork in East Africa and consulting in West Africa. Her books include Law as Process, Social Facts and Fabrications ; "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980 ; Anthropology and Africa ; and Law and Anthropology: A Reader.

• INTRODUCTION I. DATA AND THEORY II . PROPERTY RIGHT S AN D ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. III . STATELESS SOCIETIES AND THE MAINTENANCE OF ORDER V DISPUTE AND SETTLEMENT VI . MYSTICAL DISTURBANCE AND RITUAL ADJUSTMENT VII . CUSTO M IN STABILITY AN D CHANGE

Max Gluckman (1911-1975) was founder and head of the department of social anthropology and sociology at the University of Manchester. He is well known for his many books and articles on the peoples of South and Central Africa and on social anthropology in general. He was a political activist and was strongly and openly anti-colonial. || Sally Falk Moore is professor of anthropology emerita at Harvard University and affiliated professor at Harvard Law School. A specialist in legal and political anthropology, she has done fieldwork in East Africa and consulting in West Africa. Her books include Law as Process, Social Facts and Fabrications ; "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980 ; Anthropology and Africa ; and Law and Anthropology: A Reader.

• INTRODUCTION I. DATA AND THEORY II . PROPERTY RIGHT S AN D ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. III . STATELESS SOCIETIES AND THE MAINTENANCE OF ORDER V DISPUTE AND SETTLEMENT VI . MYSTICAL DISTURBANCE AND RITUAL ADJUSTMENT VII . CUSTO M IN STABILITY AN D CHANGE

Max Gluckman (1911-1975) was founder and head of the department of social anthropology and sociology at the University of Manchester. He is well known for his many books and articles on the peoples of South and Central Africa and on social anthropology in general. He was a political activist and was strongly and openly anti-colonial. || Sally Falk Moore is professor of anthropology emerita at Harvard University and affiliated professor at Harvard Law School. A specialist in legal and political anthropology, she has done fieldwork in East Africa and consulting in West Africa. Her books include Law as Process, Social Facts and Fabrications ; "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980 ; Anthropology and Africa ; and Law and Anthropology: A Reader.

• INTRODUCTION I. DATA AND THEORY II . PROPERTY RIGHT S AN D ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. III . STATELESS SOCIETIES AND THE MAINTENANCE OF ORDER V DISPUTE AND SETTLEMENT VI . MYSTICAL DISTURBANCE AND RITUAL ADJUSTMENT VII . CUSTO M IN STABILITY AN D CHANGE