Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction: Dialogues in Legal Anthropology 1
6. PART I. Resisting and Consolidating State-"Level "Legal Systems
7. 1. The Symbolic Vocabulary of Public Executions 31
8. 2. Law and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Norway 55
9. 3. A Redistributive Model for Analyzing Government Mediation and Law in Family, Community, and Industry in a New England Industrial City 81
10. 4. Constitution-Making in Islamic Iran: The Impact of Theocracy on the Legal Order of a Nation-State 113
11. PART II. Exporting and Extending Legal Orders
12. 5. Law and the Colonial State in India 131
13. 6. Contours of Change: Agrarian Law in Colonial Uganda, 1895–1962 153
14. 7. Thinking about “Interests”: Legislative Process in the European Community 168
15. Part III. Receiving and Rejecting National Legal Processes
16. 8. The Impact of Second Republic Labor Reforms in Spain 201
17. 9. Entrepreneurs and the Law: Self-employed Surinamese in Amsterdam 223
18. 10. Interpreting American Litigiousness 252
19. Part IV. Constructing and Shaping Law
20. 11. History and the Redefinition of Custom on Kilimanjaro 277
21. 12. Islamic “Case Law” and the Logic of Consequence 302
22. 13. The Crown, the Colonists, and the Course of Zapotec 320
23. 14. The “Invention” of Early Legal Ideas: Sir Henry Maine and the Perpetual Tutelage of Women 345
24. Index 369