Disputes and Settlements
Subtitle: Law and Human Relations in the West (Past and Present Publications)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780521252836
Subjects: Social groups & communities; Legal History; Social life and customs; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe; Law / Legal History; History; Dispute resolution (Law); Justice, Administration of
First sentence: For a long time anthropologists who studied disputes in other cultures showed most interest in institutions and processes within small, local groups; many paid little attention to the larger units within which these groups had been incorporated by the time they came to observe them.