Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Ethnographic Issues 1
5. PART ONE. Ethnographic Studies
6. Chapter 1. The Oven Bird's Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community 27
7. Chapter 2. Making Law at the Doorway: The Clerk, the Court, and the Construction of Community in a New England Town 54
8. Chapter 3. Courting Difference: Issues of Interpretation and Comparison in the Study of Legal Ideologies 91
9. PART TWO. Law, Values, and the Discourse of Community
10. Chapter 4. Avoidance and Involvement 117
11. Chapter 5. Connection and Separation 133
12. Chapter 6. History and Place 149
13. Conclusion: The Paradox of Community 172
14. Notes 193
15. References 209
16. Index 219