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The Natural History Press, Published 1967. Hardcover, xiv, 441 pp.; 22 cm; American Museum Sourcebooks in Anthropology; world map frontispiece keyed to chapters.
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In Very Good condition with a Good+ dust jacket. Brown cloth-covered boards with black cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped publisher's device on lower corner of front cover; mild shelf and edge wear with some fading to edges and some scuffing to cloth. Binding tight. Pages mildly toned, first and last few leaves more so; otherwise unmarked. Illustrated dust jacket (Lower Sepik, New Guinea painting adapted by William Wondriska) with a few small nicks and tears (1/2 inch or less) increasing along edges, mild overall shelf and edge wear with some toning, soiling and color loss along edges, and creasing to front flap corners. Price ($6.95) intact on front flap. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Anthology of twenty-three anthropological studies of conflict and how societies resolve it, through administered rules or through fighting, published for the American Museum of Natural History as one of the first four volumes of its Sourcebooks in Anthropology. Edited by Paul Bohannan (1920-2007), ethnographer of the Tiv of Nigeria and later president of the American Anthropological Association. Part I covers the nature of legal anthropology; Part II the judicial process, from Max Gluckman on Barotse courts and Laura Nader on Zapotec law cases to Comanche law-ways, Eskimo song duels, medieval wager of battle and ordeal, and dispute settlement in an American supermarket; Part III feuds, raids and wars, including Blackfoot horse raiding, Iroquois and Zulu military tactics, Maori warfare and the Albanian blood feud. Contents: Introduction (Paul Bohannan); Part I, The Nature of Legal Anthropology: Primitive Law (Robert Redfield); The Attributes of Law (Leopold Pospisil); The Differing Realms of the Law (Paul Bohannan); Part II, The Ethnography of Law, The Judicial Process: The Judicial Process among the Barotse (Max Gluckman); Justice in Moscow, Ten Days' Normal Fare (George Feifer); An Analysis of Zapotec Law Cases (Laura Nader); Some Notes on Law and Change in North India (Bernard S. Cohn); Procedure among the Ifugao (R. F. Barton); Law-Ways of the Comanche Indians (E. Adamson Hoebel); Disputing in Tangu (K. O. L. Burridge); The Wager of Battle (Henry Charles Lea); Song Duels among the Eskimo (E. Adamson Hoebel); Drumming the Scandal among the Tiv (Paul Bohannan); The Ordeal as a Vehicle for Divine Intervention in Medieval Europe (William J. Tewksbury); A Liberian Ordeal (Esther Warner); The Kpelle Moot (James L. Gibbs, Jr.); Dispute Settlement in an American Supermarket (Spencer MacCallum); Part III, Feuds, Raids, and Wars: Blood Revenge and War among the Jibaro Indians of Eastern Ecuador (Rafael Karsten); Blackfoot Raiding for Horses and Scalps (John C. Ewers); An Analysis of Iroquois Military Tactics (Keith F. Otterbein); The Evolution of Zulu Warfare (Keith F. Otterbein); Maori Warfare (Andrew P. Vayda); The Albanian Blood Feud (Margaret Hasluck); Bibliography; Index.