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Practicing Ethnography in Law

New Dialogues, Enduring Methods

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  • © 2002

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  1. June Starr
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  2. Mark Goodale
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introduction: Legal Ethnography: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods

    1. Introduction: Legal Ethnography: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods

      • June Starr, Mark Goodale
      Pages 1-10

  3. Performing Legal Ethnography

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Feminist Participatory Research on Legal Consciousness

      • Susan F. Hirsch
      Pages 13-33

    3. Trekking Processual Planes beyond the Rule of Law

      • Philip C. Parnell
      Pages 34-49

    4. Legal Ethnography in an Era of Globalization: The Arrival of Western Human Rights Discourse to Rural Bolivia

      • Mark Goodale
      Pages 50-71

    5. Analyzing Witchcraft Beliefs

      • Jane F. Collier
      Pages 72-86

    6. Exploring Legal Culture in Law-Avoidance Societies

      • Robert L. Kidder
      Pages 87-107

    7. Reconceptualizing Research: Ethnographic Fieldwork and Immigration Politics in Southern California

      • Susan Bibler Coutin
      Pages 108-127

    8. Ethnography in the Archives

      • Sally Engle Merry
      Pages 128-142

    9. Stories from the Field: Collecting Data Outside Over There

      • Herbert M. Kritzer
      Pages 143-159

    10. Doing Ethnography: Living Law, Life Histories, and Narratives from Botswana

      • Anne Griffiths
      Pages 160-181

  4. Reflections on Ethnography in Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. A Few Thoughts on Ethnography, History, and Law

      • Lawrence M. Friedman
      Pages 185-189

    3. Moving On—Comprehending Anthropologies of Law

      • Laura Nader
      Pages 190-201

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 203-209
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About this book

Practicing Ethnography in Law brings together a selection of top scholars in legal anthropology, social sciences, and law to delineate the state of the art in ethnographic research strategies. Each of these original essays addresses a particular set of analytical problems and uses these problems to explore issues of ethnographic technique, research methodology, and the theoretical underpinnings of ethnographic legal studies. Subjects explored include the relationship between legal and feminist scholarship, between law and the media, law and globalization, and the usefulness of a wide variety of research techniques: comparative, linguistic, life-history, interview, and archival. This volume will serve as a guide for students who are designing their own research projects, for scholars who are newly exploring the possibilities of ethnographic research, and for experienced ethnographers who are engaged with methodological issues in light of current theoretical developments. The book will be essential reading for courses in anthropological methods, legal anthropology, and sociology and law.

About the authors

JUNE STARR was one of the major figures in the ethnographic study of law and, until her death last year, was Professor at the Indiana University School of Law, USA.

MARK GOODALE is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, Virginia, USA.

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