Practicing Ethnography in Law New Dialogues, Enduring Methods
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 an
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PRACTICING ETHNOGRAPHY IN LAW NEW DIALOGUES, ENDURING METHODS
EDITED BY
JuNE STARR AND MARK GoooALE
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PRACTICING ETHNOGRAPHY IN LAW
© june Starr and Mark Goodale, 2002 Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st edition 2002 978-1-4039-6069-6 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. Chapter 5 reprinted from Studies in Law, Politics & Society, Vol. 19, Kidder, "Exploring legal culture in law-avoidance societies" (2000), with permission from Elsevier Science. First published 2002 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN1M 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin's Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-4039-6070-2 ISBN 978-1-137-06573-5 (eBook) 00110.1007/978-1-137-06573-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Practicing ethnography in law: new dialogues, enduring methods/edited by june Starr and Mark Goodale p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Ethnological jurisprudence-Congresses. I. Starr, june. II. Goodale, Mark. K190.P73 2002 240'.115-dc21 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: December, 2002 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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In Memory of Our Colleague and Friend june Starr
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
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Preface: june Starr
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Jane F. Collier and Sally Engle Merry Introduction: Legal Ethnography: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods
june Starr and Mark Goodale Part I
1
Performing Legal Ethnography
1. Feminist Participatory Research on Legal Consciousness Susan F. Hirsch
13
2. Trekking Processual Planes beyond the Rule of Law
34
3. Legal Ethnography in an Era of Globalization: The Arrival of Western Human Rights Discourse to Rural Bolivia
50
Philip C Parnell
Mark Goodale
4. Analyzing Witchcraft Beliefs fane F. Collier
72
5. Exploring Legal Culture in Law-Avoidance Societies
87
Robert L. Kidder
6. Reconceptualizing Research: Ethnographic Fieldwork and Immigration Politics in Southern California
108
7. Ethnography in the Archives
128
8. Stories from the Field: Collecting Data Outside Over There
143
9. Doing Ethnography: Living Law, Life Histories, and Narratives from Botswana
160
Susan Bibler Coutin Sally Engle Merry
Herbert M Kritzer
Anne Griffiths
VIII
Part II
I
CONTENTS
Reflections on Ethnography in Law
10. A Few Thoughts on Ethnography, History, and Law Lawrence M Friedman
185
11. Moving On-Comprehending Anthropologies of Law Laura Nader
190
Notes on the Contributors
203
Index
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
When June St
