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History, Power, Ideology, and Culture: Current Directions in the Anthropology of Law

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Starr June & Collier Jane F., eds., History and Power in the Study of Law: New Directions in Legal Anthropology. Anthropology of Contemporary Issues, Roger Sanjek, Series Ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989. x + 377 pp. Index. $42.50 cloth; $14.95 paper.
Nader Laura, Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990. xxiii + 343 pp. Plates, references, index. $42.50 cloth; $14.95 paper.
Rosen Lawrence, The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Islam. Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series, 1985. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xvi + 101 pp. Plates, notes, index. $15.95 paper.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , 1992 , pp. 373 - 411
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