Rules and Processes

by John L. Comaroff, Simon Roberts, John L. Comaroff

Book Overview

Rules and Processes is at once a compelling essay in social theory and a pathbreaking ethnography of dispute in an African society. On the basis of a sensitive study of the Tswana of southern Africa, John Comaroff and Simon Roberts challenge most of the orthodoxies of legal anthropology. They argue that the social world, and the dispute processes that occur within it, are given form and meaning by a dialectical relationship between sociocultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226114252
• ISBN13: 9780226114255
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"