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Some Recent Trends in Ethnographic Studies of Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Bruce Cox  and
Gordon S. Drever
Bruce Cox
Affiliation:
Carleton University (Ottawa)
Gordon S. Drever
Affiliation:
Brandeis University
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This essay was done as part of a larger bibliographic project on the ethnography of law, begun by Laura Nader and her students at the University of California in the early 1960s. A summary of the results of this project was published in 1966 under the title “The Ethnography of Law: A Bibliographic Survey” (Nader et al., 1966). This work's more than 700 entries surveyed the literature on customary law in seven continental areas—Africa, Asia, the Near East, Europe, Oceania, and the Americas—as they were in 1964-1965. With the help and encouragement of the original compilers, the work of revising and updating the earlier bibliography was begun. This work is still in progress. However, to stimulate further suggestions for the project, we have written this summary of trends in the literature on customary law. The summary retains the division of the earlier bibliography into major continental areas, together with a section on comparative, general, and theoretical works.

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Research Article
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Law & Society Review , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , February 1971 , pp. 407 - 415
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Copyright © 1971 The Law and Society Association.

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BALARD, R. (1965) “La servitude aquae ductus en droit Malagache ecrit et coutumier dans son application a l'hydraulique agricole,” Pp. 169–221 in Poirier, J. (ed.) Etudes de Droit Africain et de Droit Malagache. Paris: Cujas.Google Scholar
COTRAN, E. (1968) Restatement of African Law, Kenya, Volume 1: The Law of Marriage and Divorce. London: Sweet & Maxwell.Google Scholar
DERRETT, J. and M., DUNCAN (1965) Studies in the Laws of Succession in Nigeria. London: Oxford Univ. Press, for the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research.Google Scholar
DEZ, J. (1965) “Les baux ruraux coutumieres a Madagascar,” Pp. 73–93 in Poirier, J. (ed.) Etudes de Droit Africain et de Droit Malagache. Paris: Cujas.Google Scholar
FROELICH, J. C. (1965) “Droit Musulman et droit coutumier,” Pp. 361–389 in Poirier, J. (ed.) Etudes de Droit Africain et de Droit Malagache. Paris: Cujas.Google Scholar
GLUCKMAN, M. (1969) Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law: Studies Presented at the Eighth International African Seminar at the Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, January, 1966. London: Oxford Univ. Press, for the International African Institute.Google Scholar
KOUASSIGAN, G. (1966) L'Homme et La Terre: Droits Fonciers Coutumiers et Droit de Propriete en Afrique Occidentale. Paris: Berger-Levrault.Google Scholar
KUPER, H. and L., KUPER (1965) African Law: Adaptation and Development. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
LEWIN, J. (1968) “English law and African justice.” African Studies 27, 4: 157–165.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MAQUET, J. (1967) “La tenure des terres dans l'etat Rwanda traditionnel.” Cahiers D'Etudes Africaines 7, 28: 624–636.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MUHAMMAD, Y. (1967) “The legal status of Muslim women in the northern states of Nigeria.” J. of the Center of Islamic Studies 1,2: 1–38.Google Scholar
MUNRO, A.P. (1966) “Land law in Kenya.” Wisconsin Law Rev. 1966, 4: 1071–1095.Google Scholar
PETERS, E. L. (1967) “Some structural aspects of the feud among the camel herding Bedouin of Cyrenaica.” Africa 37, 3: 261–282.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
POIRIER, J. (1965) Etudes de Droit Africain et de Droit Malagache. Paris: Cujas.Google Scholar
RAMOLEFE, A. M. R. (1969) “Sesotho marriage, guardianship, and customary-law heirs,” Pp. 196–209 in Gluckman, M. (ed.) Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law: Studies Presented at the Eighth International African Seminar at the Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, January, 1966. London: Oxford Univ. Press, for the International African Institute.Google Scholar
REDDEN, K. R. (1968) The Legal System of Ethiopia. Charlottesville, Va.: Michie.Google Scholar
SALACUSE, J. (1965) Selective Survey of Family Law in Northern Nigeria. Zaria: Institute of Administration.Google Scholar
SEDLER, R. A. (1964) “The Chilot jurisdiction of the Emperor of Ethiopia: a legal analysis in historical and comparative perspective.” J. of African Law 8 (Summer): 59–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
SEIDMAN, R. B. (1966) “Law and economic development in independent English-speaking, sub-Saharan Africa.” Wisconsin Law Rev. 1966, 4: 999–1070.Google Scholar
SMITH, M. G. (1969) “Idda and secondary marriage among the northern Kadara,” pp. 210-222 in M. Gluckman (ed). Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law: Studies presented at the Eighth International African Seminar at the Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, January, 1966. London: Oxford Univ. Press, for the International African Institute.Google Scholar
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SUKA, A. A. (1966) “Conflict of Islamic law and customary law of family relations in northern Nigeria.” J. of the Center of Islamic Studies 1, 1: 12–21.Google Scholar
THOMPSON, C. F. (1966) “The sources of law in the new nations of Africa: a case study from the Republic of the Sudan.” Wisconsin Law Rev. 1966, 4: 1146–1187.Google Scholar
VANDERLINDEN, J. (1966) “Apropos de Quelques Ouvrages Recent de Droit Africain.” Africa 36, 4: 359–372.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
VANSINA, J. (1965) “A traditional legal system: the Kuba,” Pp. 97–119 in Kuper, H. and Kuper, L. (eds.) African Law: Adaptation and Development. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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VERIN, P. (1965) “Quelques aspects de la vie sociale et juridique des Tanala Ikongo,” Pp. 151–168 in Poirier, J. (ed.) Etudes de Droit Africain et de Droit Malagache. Paris: Cujas.Google Scholar
BODDE, D. and C., MORRIS (1967) Law in Imperial China: Exemplified by 190 Ching Dynasty Cases with Historical, Social and Judicial Commentaries. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
CHENG-FA YEN-CHIN (1968) “A symposium on the objects of legal study.” Chinese Law and Government 1 (Summer): 27–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
COHEN, J. A. (1967) “Chinese mediation on the eve of modernization.” J. of Asian and African Studies 2, 1-2: 54–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
GALANTER, M. (1968-1969) “An incomplete bibliography of the Indian legal profession.” Law and Society Rev. 3 (November-February): 445–462.Google Scholar
HENDERSON, D. F. (1967) “Promulgation of Tokugawa statutes.” J. of Asian and African Studies 2, 1-2: 9–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
HENDERSON, D. F. (1965) Conciliation and Japanese Law: Tokugawa and Modern. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press.Google Scholar
HOOKER, M. B. (1967) A Source Book of Adat, Chinese Law and the History of Common Law in the Malayan Peninsula. Monderadh: Malayan Law Rev.Google Scholar
LIU KUEI-KUA (1968) “Marriage by purchase really harms people.” Chinese Sociology and Anthropology 1 (Fall): 58–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
NING MING-YEH (1968) “The party supports me in my struggle for self-determination in marriage.” Chinese Sociology and Anthropology 1 (Fall): 52–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
SHIGA, S. (1967) “Some remarks on the judicial system in China: historical developments and characteristics.” J. of Asian and African Studies 2, 1-2: 45–53.Google Scholar
ANTOUN, R. T. (1965) “Conservation and change in the village community: a Jordanian case study.” Human Organization 24, 1: 4–10.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
AYOUB, V. F. (1965) “Conflict resolution and social reorganization in a Lebanese village.” Human Organization 24, 1: 11–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
BOYER, G. (1965) Melanges: II Melanges D'Histoire du Droit Oriental. Paris: Sirey.Google Scholar
ELON, M. (1967-1969) “The sources and nature of Jewish law and its application in the state of Israel.” Israel Law Rev. 2 (October): 515-565; 3 (July): 416-457; 4 (January): 80–140.Google Scholar
YARON, R. (1966) “The goring ox in Near Eastern laws.” Israel Law Rev. 1 (July): 396–406.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
CROOK, J. (1967) Law and Life of Rome. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press.Google Scholar
HARDING, A. (1965) A Social History of English Law. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin.Google Scholar
HARRISON, A. R. W. (1968) The Law of Athens. Oxford: Clarendon.Google Scholar
CHRETIEN, J. (1969) Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy. Ottawa: Queen's Printer.Google Scholar
CLEMMER, R. O. (1969) “The fed-up Hopi: resistance of the American Indian and the silence of the good anthropologists.” Presented to the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Milwaukee.Google Scholar
COLSON, E. (1968) “Indian reservations and the American social system.” Presented to the Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Seattle.Google Scholar
KAWASHIMA, Y. (1969) “Legal origins of the Indian reservation in colonial Massachusetts.” Amer. J. of Legal History 13 (January): 42–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
BLACK, M. and D., METZGER (1965) “Ethnographic description and the study of law.” Amer. Anthropologist 67 (December, Part 2): 141–165.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
GILISSEN, J. (1963) Bibliographic Introduction to Legal History and Ethnology. Brussels: Les Editions de l'Institut de Sociologie.Google Scholar
KUMAGAI, K. (1966) “An introduction to a comparative Japanese-Swedish legal history of marriage: especially on the period of modernization in both countries.” Osaka Univ. Law Rev. 14: 1–12.Google Scholar
NADER, L. (1965) “The anthropological study of law.” Amer. Anthropologist 67 (December, Part 2): 3–32.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
NADER, L. (1966) “The ethnography of law: a bibliographic survey.” Current Anthropology 7 (June): 267–294.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
OTTERBEIN, K. F. (1968) “Internal war: a cross-cultural study.” Amer. Anthropologist 70 (April): 277–289.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
OTTERBEIN, K. F. (1965) “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth: a cross-cultural study of feuding.” Amer. Anthropologist 67 (December, Part 1): 1470–1482.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
POSPISIL, L. (1965) “A formal analysis of substantive law: Kapauka Papuan laws of land tenure.” Amer. Anthropologist 67 (October, Part 2): 186–214.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
ANDERSON, J. N. D. (1965) “The adaptation of Muslim law in sub-Saharan Africa,” Pp. 149–164 in H. and Kuper, L. (eds.) African Law: Adaptation and Development. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
BALARD, R. (1965) “La servitude aquae ductus en droit Malagache ecrit et coutumier dans son application a l'hydraulique agricole,” Pp. 169–221 in Poirier, J. (ed.) Etudes de Droit Africain et de Droit Malagache. Paris: Cujas.Google Scholar
COTRAN, E. (1968) Restatement of African Law, Kenya, Volume 1: The Law of Marriage and Divorce. London: Sweet & Maxwell.Google Scholar
DERRETT, J. and M., DUNCAN (1965) Studies in the Laws of Succession in Nigeria. London: Oxford Univ. Press, for the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research.Google Scholar
DEZ, J. (1965) “Les baux ruraux coutumieres a Madagascar,” Pp. 73–93 in Poirier, J. (ed.) Etudes de Droit Africain et de Droit Malagache. Paris: Cujas.Google Scholar
FROELICH, J. C. (1965) “Droit Musulman et droit coutumier,” Pp. 361–389 in Poirier, J. (ed.) Etudes de Droit Africain et de Droit Malagache. Paris: Cujas.Google Scholar
GLUCKMAN, M. (1969) Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law: Studies Presented at the Eighth International African Seminar at the Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, January, 1966. London: Oxford Univ. Press, for the International African Institute.Google Scholar
KOUASSIGAN, G. (1966) L'Homme et La Terre: Droits Fonciers Coutumiers et Droit de Propriete en Afrique Occidentale. Paris: Berger-Levrault.Google Scholar
KUPER, H. and L., KUPER (1965) African Law: Adaptation and Development. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
LEWIN, J. (1968) “English law and African justice.” African Studies 27, 4: 157–165.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MAQUET, J. (1967) “La tenure des terres dans l'etat Rwanda traditionnel.” Cahiers D'Etudes Africaines 7, 28: 624–636.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MUHAMMAD, Y. (1967) “The legal status of Muslim women in the northern states of Nigeria.” J. of the Center of Islamic Studies 1,2: 1–38.Google Scholar
MUNRO, A.P. (1966) “Land law in Kenya.” Wisconsin Law Rev. 1966, 4: 1071–1095.Google Scholar
PETERS, E. L. (1967) “Some structural aspects of the feud among the camel herding Bedouin of Cyrenaica.” Africa 37, 3: 261–282.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
POIRIER, J. (1965) Etudes de Droit Africain et de Droit Malagache. Paris: Cujas.Google Scholar
RAMOLEFE, A. M. R. (1969) “Sesotho marriage, guardianship, and customary-law heirs,” Pp. 196–209 in Gluckman, M. (ed.) Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law: Studies Presented at the Eighth International African Seminar at the Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, January, 1966. London: Oxford Univ. Press, for the International African Institute.Google Scholar
REDDEN, K. R. (1968) The Legal System of Ethiopia. Charlottesville, Va.: Michie.Google Scholar
SALACUSE, J. (1965) Selective Survey of Family Law in Northern Nigeria. Zaria: Institute of Administration.Google Scholar
SEDLER, R. A. (1964) “The Chilot jurisdiction of the Emperor of Ethiopia: a legal analysis in historical and comparative perspective.” J. of African Law 8 (Summer): 59–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
SEIDMAN, R. B. (1966) “Law and economic development in independent English-speaking, sub-Saharan Africa.” Wisconsin Law Rev. 1966, 4: 999–1070.Google Scholar
SMITH, M. G. (1969) “Idda and secondary marriage among the northern Kadara,” pp. 210-222 in M. Gluckman (ed). Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law: Studies presented at the Eighth International African Seminar at the Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, January, 1966. London: Oxford Univ. Press, for the International African Institute.Google Scholar
SMITH, M. G. (1965) “Hausa inheritance and succession,” Pp. 230–281 in Duncan, J. and Derrett, M. (eds.) Studies in the Laws of Succession in Nigeria. London: Oxford Univ. Press, for the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research.Google Scholar
SUKA, A. A. (1966) “Conflict of Islamic law and customary law of family relations in northern Nigeria.” J. of the Center of Islamic Studies 1, 1: 12–21.Google Scholar
THOMPSON, C. F. (1966) “The sources of law in the new nations of Africa: a case study from the Republic of the Sudan.” Wisconsin Law Rev. 1966, 4: 1146–1187.Google Scholar
VANDERLINDEN, J. (1966) “Apropos de Quelques Ouvrages Recent de Droit Africain.” Africa 36, 4: 359–372.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
VANSINA, J. (1965) “A traditional legal system: the Kuba,” Pp. 97–119 in Kuper, H. and Kuper, L. (eds.) African Law: Adaptation and Development. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
VAN VESLIN, I. (1969) “Procedural informality, reconciliation and false comparisons,” Pp. 137–152 in Gluckman, M. (ed.) Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law: Studies Presented at the Eighth International African Seminar at the Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, January, 1966. London: Oxford Univ. Press, for the International African Institute.Google Scholar
VERIN, P. (1965) “Quelques aspects de la vie sociale et juridique des Tanala Ikongo,” Pp. 151–168 in Poirier, J. (ed.) Etudes de Droit Africain et de Droit Malagache. Paris: Cujas.Google Scholar
BODDE, D. and C., MORRIS (1967) Law in Imperial China: Exemplified by 190 Ching Dynasty Cases with Historical, Social and Judicial Commentaries. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
CHENG-FA YEN-CHIN (1968) “A symposium on the objects of legal study.” Chinese Law and Government 1 (Summer): 27–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
COHEN, J. A. (1967) “Chinese mediation on the eve of modernization.” J. of Asian and African Studies 2, 1-2: 54–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
GALANTER, M. (1968-1969) “An incomplete bibliography of the Indian legal profession.” Law and Society Rev. 3 (November-February): 445–462.Google Scholar
HENDERSON, D. F. (1967) “Promulgation of Tokugawa statutes.” J. of Asian and African Studies 2, 1-2: 9–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
HENDERSON, D. F. (1965) Conciliation and Japanese Law: Tokugawa and Modern. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press.Google Scholar
HOOKER, M. B. (1967) A Source Book of Adat, Chinese Law and the History of Common Law in the Malayan Peninsula. Monderadh: Malayan Law Rev.Google Scholar
LIU KUEI-KUA (1968) “Marriage by purchase really harms people.” Chinese Sociology and Anthropology 1 (Fall): 58–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
NING MING-YEH (1968) “The party supports me in my struggle for self-determination in marriage.” Chinese Sociology and Anthropology 1 (Fall): 52–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
SHIGA, S. (1967) “Some remarks on the judicial system in China: historical developments and characteristics.” J. of Asian and African Studies 2, 1-2: 45–53.Google Scholar
ANTOUN, R. T. (1965) “Conservation and change in the village community: a Jordanian case study.” Human Organization 24, 1: 4–10.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
AYOUB, V. F. (1965) “Conflict resolution and social reorganization in a Lebanese village.” Human Organization 24, 1: 11–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
BOYER, G. (1965) Melanges: II Melanges D'Histoire du Droit Oriental. Paris: Sirey.Google Scholar
ELON, M. (1967-1969) “The sources and nature of Jewish law and its application in the state of Israel.” Israel Law Rev. 2 (October): 515-565; 3 (July): 416-457; 4 (January): 80–140.Google Scholar
YARON, R. (1966) “The goring ox in Near Eastern laws.” Israel Law Rev. 1 (July): 396–406.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
CROOK, J. (1967) Law and Life of Rome. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press.Google Scholar
HARDING, A. (1965) A Social History of English Law. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin.Google Scholar
HARRISON, A. R. W. (1968) The Law of Athens. Oxford: Clarendon.Google Scholar
CHRETIEN, J. (1969) Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy. Ottawa: Queen's Printer.Google Scholar
CLEMMER, R. O. (1969) “The fed-up Hopi: resistance of the American Indian and the silence of the good anthropologists.” Presented to the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Milwaukee.Google Scholar
COLSON, E. (1968) “Indian reservations and the American social system.” Presented to the Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Seattle.Google Scholar
KAWASHIMA, Y. (1969) “Legal origins of the Indian reservation in colonial Massachusetts.” Amer. J. of Legal History 13 (January): 42–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
BLACK, M. and D., METZGER (1965) “Ethnographic description and the study of law.” Amer. Anthropologist 67 (December, Part 2): 141–165.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
GILISSEN, J. (1963) Bibliographic Introduction to Legal History and Ethnology. Brussels: Les Editions de l'Institut de Sociologie.Google Scholar
KUMAGAI, K. (1966) “An introduction to a comparative Japanese-Swedish legal history of marriage: especially on the period of modernization in both countries.” Osaka Univ. Law Rev. 14: 1–12.Google Scholar
NADER, L. (1965) “The anthropological study of law.” Amer. Anthropologist 67 (December, Part 2): 3–32.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
NADER, L. (1966) “The ethnography of law: a bibliographic survey.” Current Anthropology 7 (June): 267–294.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
OTTERBEIN, K. F. (1968) “Internal war: a cross-cultural study.” Amer. Anthropologist 70 (April): 277–289.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
OTTERBEIN, K. F. (1965) “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth: a cross-cultural study of feuding.” Amer. Anthropologist 67 (December, Part 1): 1470–1482.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
POSPISIL, L. (1965) “A formal analysis of substantive law: Kapauka Papuan laws of land tenure.” Amer. Anthropologist 67 (October, Part 2): 186–214.CrossRefGoogle Scholar