The Life of the Law: Anthropological Projects
- ISBN-10
- 0520231635
- ISBN-13
- 9780520231634
- Series
- The Life of the Law
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Laura Nader
Description
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Evolving an Ethnography of Law: A Personal Document 2 Lawyers and Anthropologists 3 Hegemonic Processes in Law: Colonial to Contemporary 4 The Plaintiff: A User Theory Epilogue Bibliography Index.
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