Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents III
3. Preface to the Paperback Edition V
4. Preface VIII
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I. CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIES
7. Introduction 11
8. Dispute Settlement Without Courts: The Ndendeuli of Southern Tanzania 24
9. Styles of Court Procedure: To Make the Balance 69
10. Keresan Pueblo Law 92
11. Law at the Village Level: The Cottica Djuka of Surinam 117
12. Ontology of the Judicial Thought of the Kahre of Northern Togo 141
13. Struck by Speech: The Yakan Concept of Litigation 147
14. PART II. LAW AND INNOVATION IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIES
15. Introduction 169
16. Law and Personality: Signposts for a New Direction 176
17. Structural Change and Primitive Law: Consequences of a Papuan Legal Case 208
18. Uniformity and Variation in Chief-Made Law: A Tswana Case Study 230
19. Constitutional Ambiguities and the British Administration of Royal Careers Among the Bemba of Zambia 245
20. PART III. CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN WESTERN SOCIETIES
21. Introduction 273
22. Law as a Way of Resolving Conflicts: The Case of a Small Industrialized Society 282
23. The Offer of a Free Home: A Case Study in the Family Law of the Poor 304
24. Cases, Courts, and Congestion 327
25. PART IV. COMPARATIVE STUDIES
26. Introduction 337
27. Concepts in the Comparative Study of Tribal Law 349
28. Descent and Legal Position 374
29. Ethnography and Comparison in Legal Anthropology 401
30. Bibliography 419
31. Contributors 440
32. Name Index 444