Description :

This treatise is one of the first systematic presentations of the entire field of law and anthropology in its second supplemented edition. The book combines cultural with behavioural and theoretical with practical ‘applied’ approaches. It also introduces into history and literature of cultural anthropology focusing on law with occasional forays into economy, political science, and religion.

Table Of Contents:

Part One: Anthropology of law in general
Ch. 1: Anthropology of law as a science
Ch. 2: History, schools, and names
Ch. 3: Concepts
Ch. 4: Social norms
Ch. 5: Theories of culture and cultures
Ch. 6:Analyzing in cultural anthropology
Ch. 7: Biological anthropology in its relation to the anthropology of law

Part Two: The sub-disciplines of anthropology of law
Ch. 8: Kinship patterns. Other anthropological aspects of family and gender
Ch. 9: Societal order, personhood,and human rights
Ch. 10: Reciprocity, exchange, gifts, contracting, trust
Ch. 11: Possession, ownership, probate, market and non-market economies, antitrust, cultural property and heritage of mankind
Ch. 12: Torts, crimes, sanctions. Witchcraft and related issues
Ch. 13: Jurisdiction. Procedure and dispute settlement. Conflicts of law

Part Three: The legal anthropology of ethnic groups, and applied anthropology of law
Ch. 14: Native American law
Ch. 15: Other ethnic groups. The international law of indigenous peoples. Global human rights
Ch. 16. Applied anthropology of law