The Cheyenne Way

by Karl N. Llewellyn and E. Adamson Hoebel

Book Overview

The Cheyenne Indians, in sharp contrast to other Plains tribes, are renowned for the clear sense of form and structure in their institutions. This cultural trait, together with the colorful background of the Cheyennes, attracted the unique collaboration of a legal theorist and an anthropologist, who, in this volume, provide a definitive picture of the law-ways of a primitive, nonliterate people.

This foundational study of primitive law presents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806118555
• ISBN13: 9780806118550
• Release Date: September 1941
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"