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Law and economic organization

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The question why certain kinds of legal institutions are found in certain kinds of societies has been little explored by anthropologists. In this book Katherine Newman examines a sample of some sixty different preindustrial societies, distributed across the world, in an attempt to explain why their legal systems vary. The key to understanding this variation, Professor Newman argues, is to be found in economic organization. Adopting a Marxian, or materialist, approach, she draws on original ethnographic sources for each culture in order to investigate how legal processes and institutions regulate basic aspects of economic life in societies with differing types of economic organization..

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Z. HANDIMAN

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340.115 NEW l

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press., 1983

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xii,264p.; 22 cm.

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English

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0-521-28966-1

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340.115

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ETHNOLOGICAL JURISPRUDENCE

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