Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface Introduction, Laura Nader PART I CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIES Introduction, P.H. GULLIVER Dispute Settlement Without Courts: The N Dendeuli of Southern Tanzania, P. H. Gulliver Styles of Court Procedure: To Make the Balance, Laura Nader Keresan Pueblo Law, E. Adamson Hoebel Law at the Village Level: The Cottica Djuka of Surinam, Andre J.F.Kobben Ontology of the Judicial Thought of the Kahre of Northern Togo, Raymond Verdier Struck by Speech: The Yakan Concept of Litigation, Charles 0.

Frake PART II LAW AND INNOVATION IN NON-WESTERN SOCIETIES Introduction, JAMES L. GIBBS, JR. Law and Personality: Signposts for a New Direction, James L. Gibbs, Jr. Structural Change and Primitive Law: Consequences of a Papuan Legal Case, Leopold Pospisil Uniformity and Variation in Chief-Made Law: A Tswana Case Study Isaac Schapera Constitutional Ambiguities and the British Administration of Royal Careers Among the Bemba of Zambia Richard P. Werbner PART III CASE STUDIES OF LAW IN WESTERN SOCIETIES Introduction, VILHELM AUBERT Law as a Way of Resolving Conflicts: The Case of a Small Industrialized Society VILHELM AUBERT The Offer of a Free Home: A Case Study in the Family Law of the Poor Herma H. Kay Cases, Courts, and Congestion Gresham M. Sykes PART IV COMPARATIVE STUDIES Introduction, SALLY FALK MOORE Concepts in the Comparative Study of Tribal Law Max Gluckman Descent and Legal Position Sally Falk Moore Ethnography and Comparison in Legal Anthropology Paul Bohannan Bibliography Contributors Index.