7. Disputing Over Livestock in Sardinia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Acknowledgments XV
5. Contributors XVII
6. Introduction: The Disputing Process 1
7. 1. Pigs and Politics in the New Guinea Highlands: Conflict Escalation Among the Jalé 41
8. 2. The Atlantic Fishermen 59
9. 3. Litigious Marginals: Character and Disputing in a Bavarian Village 86
10. 4. Turkish Village Disputing Behavior 122
11. 5. The Social Dynamics of Dispute Settlement in a Sunni Muslim Village in Lebanon 152
12. 6. A Good Name is Worth More Than Money: Strategies of Court Use in Urban Ghana 181
13. 7. Disputing Over Livestock in Sardinia 209
14. 8. Dispute Settlement and Dispute Processing in Zambia: Individual Choice versus Societal Constraints 247
15. 9. Disputing Issues in Shehaam, a Multireligious Village in Lebanon 281
16. 10. Village or State? Competitive Legal Systems in a Mexican Judicial District 315
17. References 351
18. Name Index 363
19. Subject Index 365