Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach (Classes in African anthropology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3825844935 ISBN 13: 9783825844936

Publisher: Lit Verlag, 2000

Synopsis

This study of the role of law in society has become a standard work in the ethnology of law. The central theme of the book is that social processes that prevent the total regulation of society also reshape and transform efforts at partial regulation. In particular, the making of rules and social or symbolic order is as often matched by situational pressures to manipulate, circumvent, remake or replace the same rules. Frequently, these pressures are as great as pressures to uphold rules.

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Product Description

This is a study of the role of law in African society. It is a work in the ethnology of law. Its central theme is that the same social processes which prevent the total regulation of society are those that re-shape and transform the efforts to regulate. Sally Falk Moore's study was originally published in 1978. New edition published in association with the International African Institute Germany: Lit Verlag; North America: Transaction Books

Edition details

• Publisher: Lit Verlag
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3825844935
• ISBN 13: 9783825844936
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Moore Sally Falk