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Law, as we know it, with its rules and rituals, its procedures and professionals, has not been around forever. It came into being, it emerged, at different plac

This classic work in the anthropology of law offers ambitiously conceived analyses of the fundamental rights and duties treated as law among nonliterate peoples

As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provid