The Ethnography of Law: A Bibliographical Survey (original) (raw)

1966, Current Anthropology

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY, A SELECTED SAMPLE of the world's literature on law, has been prepared to encourage and facilitate contemporary social science research in law. Although a major portion of this bibliography has been annotated, we have included items that have not been available for annotation. Since this bibliog raphy makes no pretense of being exhaustive or final, corrections and additions will be appreciated. FACTORS THAT INFLUENCED THE SELECTION Work by a variety of professionals is represented: (a) empirical field work on law by professional an thropologists; (b) studies by missionaries and admin istrators in societies where either no other material is available or the material is particularly good (e.g. sources on African peoples such as Hoffman on Sotho law, 1934, Or Howell On Nuer law, 1954); (c) works by lawyers (e.g., S. Y. Seymour on South Africa, and T. O. Elias on West Africa) and judges (e.g., N. Smith on the Maori); (d) reports by travelers and lay ob servers (e.g., G. Feifer on Russian law, 1964); and (e) studies by a few philologists (see the German lit erature in particular). \Y/e have been primarily interested in reports by This bibliographic survey was made possible by support from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, and research funds made available (0 the Department of Anthropology by the University of California, Berkeley. Many people have helped in the compilation of this work.