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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778168403321

Autore

Hoebel E. Adamson (Edward Adamson), <1906-1993.>

Titolo

The law of primitive man : a study in comparative legal dynamics / / E. Adamson Hoebel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Harvard University Press, , 1954

ISBN

0-674-03870-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource e (viii, 357 pages)

Disciplina

340.1

Soggetti

Customary law

Political anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- PART I The Study of Primitive Law -- 1 The Cultural Background of Law -- 2 What is Law? -- 3 Methods and Techniques -- 4 Fundamental Legal Concepts as Applied in the Study of Primitive Law -- PART II Primitive Law-ways -- 5 The Eskimo: Rudimentary Law in a Primitive Anarchy -- 6 The Ifugao: Private Law tn Northern Luzon -- 7 Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne: Plains Indian Law in Development -- 8 The Trobriand Islanders: Primitive Law as Seen by Bronislaw Malinowski -- 9 The Ashanti: Constitutional Monarchy and the Triumph of Public Law -- PART III Law and Society -- 10 Religion, Magic, and Law -- 11 The Functions of Law -- 12 The Trend of the Law -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This classic work in the anthropology of law offers ambitiously conceived analyses of the fundamental rights and duties treated as law among nonliterate peoples. The heart of the book is an analysis of the law of five societies: the Eskimo; the Ifugao; the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne tribes; the Trobriand Islanders; and the Ashanti.