The law of primitive man : a study in comparative legal dynamics / E. Adamson Hoebel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoebel, E. Adamson (Edward Adamson), 1906-1993.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Customary law.

Political anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource e (viii, 357 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1954.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This classic work in the anthropology of law offers ambitiously conceived analyses of the fundamental rights and duties treated as law among nonliterate peoples. The heart of the book is an analysis of the law of five societies: the Eskimo; the Ifugao; the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne tribes; the Trobriand Islanders; and the Ashanti.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

PART I The Study of Primitive Law

1 The Cultural Background of Law

2 What is Law?

3 Methods and Techniques

4 Fundamental Legal Concepts as Applied in the Study of Primitive Law

PART II Primitive Law-ways

5 The Eskimo: Rudimentary Law in a Primitive Anarchy

6 The Ifugao: Private Law tn Northern Luzon

7 Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne: Plains Indian Law in Development

8 The Trobriand Islanders: Primitive Law as Seen by Bronislaw Malinowski

9 The Ashanti: Constitutional Monarchy and the Triumph of Public Law

PART III Law and Society

10 Religion, Magic, and Law

11 The Functions of Law

12 The Trend of the Law

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliography.

ISBN:

9780674038707

0674038703

OCLC:

605580502