Order and Dispute: An introduction to legal anthropology

Contents......Page 5
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 6
The ethnographic project......Page 7
The colonial scene......Page 8
The legacy of modern social theory......Page 9
Preface to the First Edition......Page 15
1 
Introduction......Page 17
2 
Why Not Law?......Page 22
3 
Order and Continuity in Everyday Life......Page 33
4 
Disputes......Page 47
i.  Disputes between groups and disputes within them......Page 50
ii.  Broken rules and conflicting interests......Page 53
B. THE HANDLING OF DISPUTES......Page 54
i.  Inter-personal violence......Page 57
ii.  Channeling conflict into ritual......Page 60
iii.  Shaming......Page 62
iv.  Supernatural agencies......Page 63
v.  Ostracism......Page 65
vi.  Talking......Page 67
C. SETTLEMENT-DIRECTED TALKING......Page 69
i.  Bilateral negotiation......Page 71
ii. Mediation......Page 72
iii.  Umpires......Page 76
5 
Nomadic Hunters and Gatherers......Page 78
6 
Settlement and Property......Page 97
7 
Stateless Societies......Page 111
8 
The State......Page 131
9 
Fighting and Talking......Page 146
A. FIGHTING......Page 148
B. TALKING......Page 153
10 
Rules and Power......Page 159
11 
Main Themes and Interests in the Literature......Page 175
LAW-CENTRED STUDIES......Page 182
STUDIES OF ORDER AND DISPUTE......Page 188
Afterword to the Second Edition......Page 196
Conceptualising the relations between centre and periphery......Page 198
Bibliography......Page 202
Index......Page 207
About the Author......Page 214