Practicing ethnography in law : new dialogues, enduring methods / edited by June Starr and Mark Goodale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Starr, June.

Goodale, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnological jurisprudence--Congresses.

Ethnological jurisprudence.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction: Legal Ethnography: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods / June Starr, Mark Goodale 1

Part I Performing Legal Ethnography

1. Feminist Participatory Research on Legal Consciousness / Susan F. Hirsch 13

2. Trekking Processual Planes beyond the Rule of Law / Philip C. Parnell 34

3. Legal Ethnography in an Era of Globalization: The Arrival of Western Human Rights Discourse to Rural Bolivia / Mark Goodale 50

4. Analyzing Witchcraft Beliefs / Jane F. Collier 72

5. Exploring Legal Culture in Law-Avoidance Societies / Robert L. Kidder 87

6. Reconceptualizing Research: Ethnographic Fieldwork and Immigration Politics in Southern California / Susan Bibler Coutin 108

7. Ethnography in the Archives / Sally Engle Merry 128

8. Stories from the Field: Collecting Data Outside Over There / Herbert M. Kritzer 143

9. Doing Ethnography: Living Law, Life Histories, and Narratives from Botswana / Anne Griffiths 160

Part II Reflections on Ethnography in Law

10. A Few Thoughts on Ethnography, History, and Law / Lawrence M. Friedman 185

11. Moving On

Comprehending Anthropologies of Law / Laura Nader 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403960704

1403960690

OCLC:

50479307