Law in Radically Different CulturesThe purpose of the text is to teach about law by focusing on contemporary legal systems within the framework of each culture. The text emphasizes the legal process in each of the four traditions by concentrating on the specific problems of inheritance, as an example of the definition of and response to crime; contracts as an example of economic decision making; and population planning as an example of personal rights and the allocation of power between judicial, bureaucratic, and religious institutions. For use in undergraduate anthropology courses as well as in advanced anthropology or comparative law courses. |
Contents
BACKGROUND | 1 |
SUCCESSION TO POLITICAL OFFICE IN BOTSWANA | 10 |
INTRODUCTORY NOTE ON EGYPT AND EGYPTIAN | 16 |
PRIVATE ORDERING IN EGYPTContinued Page | 19 |
POPULATION PLANNING IN BOTSWANAContinued Page | 25 |
INTRODUCTORY NOTE ON BOTSWANA AND TSWANA | 40 |
A Note on the Persistence of Chiefly Power | 70 |
China | 102 |
EMBEZZLEMENT BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS | 363 |
Embezzlement by a Public Official in Western Law 376 | 376 |
Embezzlement by a Public Official in Egyptian Law | 420 |
Embezzlement by a Public Official in Botswana | 463 |
Embezzlement by a Public Official in Chinese Law | 531 |
PRIVATE ORDERING | 577 |
Private Ordering in the West | 584 |
Private Ordering in Egypt | 612 |
INHERITANCE SUCCESSION AND DESCENT | 137 |
INHERITANCE SUCCESSION AND DESCENT | 189 |
C | 208 |
TwentiethCentury Reforms | 214 |
INHERITANCE AND FAMILY SUCCESSION | 224 |
6 | 242 |
7 | 251 |
Succession to Political Office in Botswana | 276 |
B G L M Law in Rad Dif Cultures ACB2 XXIX | 277 |
11 | 299 |
C | 314 |
Inheritance and Succession in Chinese Law | 322 |
B Inheritance and Succession in the Republic of China | 337 |
Inheritance and Succession in the Peoples Republic | 344 |
The | 620 |
B Modernization | 626 |
Private Ordering in Botswana | 656 |
Private Ordering in China | 698 |
E Liability and Damages | 726 |
Chapter Page | 738 |
POPULATION CONTROL IN THE WEST | 745 |
POPULATION PLANNING IN EGYPT | 807 |
The Governments Response | 830 |
25 | 853 |
b BoyGirl Relations During Traditional Child | 865 |
POPULATION PLANNING IN CHINA | 909 |
Index | 951 |
Copyright | |