Harmony Ideology : Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village / Laura Nader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nader, Laura, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.) : illus

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Tables and Figures

Preface

1 Introduction

Part I. Social Organization and Control

2 The Experience of Place

3 Order Through Social Organization: Stratifying, Leveling, and Linking

4 Grievances and Remedy Agents: Comparisons in Social Organization

Part II. Court Users

5 Setting the Law into Motion

6 Deciding Cases: "They Make Your Head Hot"

7 Court Styles: "A Bad Agreement Is Better than a Good Fight"

8 Dissecting Cases to Understand Court Users

9 Over the Mountain to the District Court

Part III. The Substance of Legal Encounters

10 Rank, Intimacy, and Control in Cross-sex Complaints

11 Violence and Harmony in Same-sex Litigation

12 Individual and Community Interest in Property Cases

13 Contests About Governance

Part IV. Connections

14 Harmony in Comparative Perspective

15 Ethnography and the Construction of Theory

References Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2183-9

OCLC:

1322125913