Law as process : an anthropological approach / Sally Falk Moore ; new introduction by Martin Chanock.
2000
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Author
Title
Law as process : an anthropological approach / Sally Falk Moore ; new introduction by Martin Chanock.
Published
Hamburg : Lit Verlag ; Oxford : James Currey with the IAI, 2000.
Call Number
K190 .M66 2000
ISBN
3825844927 (Lit)
3825844935 (Lit : pbk.)
0852559100 (Currey : pbk)
3825844935 (Lit : pbk.)
0852559100 (Currey : pbk)
Description
xxx, 270 pages ; 21 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)55982917
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-265) and index.
Record Appears in
Original Version
Originally published: London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul, 1978.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
1
Uncertainties in situations, indeterminacies in culture
32
Ideology and social structure: congruent or not?
33
Process: changes in individual situations and changes in culture
42
An analytic framework
48
2
Law and social change: the semi-autonomous social field as an appropriate subject of study
54
Mutual obligation, legal and non-legal, in the better dress line
59
The Chagga of Mount Kilimanjaro
65
Conclusions
78
3
Legal liability and evolutionary interpretation: some aspects of strict liability, self-help, and collective responsibility
82
Introduction: some sherds of the theoretical pot
82
State of mind and strict liability
91
Self-help and the principle of expanding dispute
99
Collective responsibility and corporateness: collectivities inside and outside
111
Conclusions
126
4
Comparative studies
135
5
Descent and legal position
149
A minimal definition of descent
153
The Lango: descent and constitutional theories
158
Clans, cattle, and contingency: variations in the descent formula
163
Village membership: descent group membership
170
Conclusion
174
6
Politics, procedures, and norms in changing Chagga law
181
Law and anthropology
214
Bibliography
257
Index
267