No Access to Law: Alternatives to the American Judicial System

Nader, Laura

Academic Press

Pigs and Politics in the New Guinea Highlands: Conflict Escalation Among the Jale; The Atlantic Fishermen; Litigious Marginals: Character and Disputing in a Bavarian Village; Turkish Village Disputing Behavior; The Social Dynamics of Dispute Settlement in a Sunni Muslim Village in Lebanon; A Good Name is Worth More Than Money: Stragies of Court Use un Urban Ghana; Disputing Over Livestock in Sardinia; Dispute Settlement and Dispute Processing in Zambia: Individual Choice Versus Societal Constraints; Disputing Issues in Shehaam, a Multureligious Village in Lebanon; Village or State? Competitive Legal Systems in a Mexican Judicial District

The Disputing Process in Ten Societies

Columbia University Press

Laura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role of the law in the struggle for social and economic justice. In this book she gives an overview of the history of legal anthropology and at the same time urges anthropologists, lawyers, and activists to recognize the centrality of law in social change. Nader traces the evolution of the plaintiff's role in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century and passionately argues that the atrophy of the plaintiff's power during this period represents a profound challenge to justice and democracy. Taking into account the vast changes wrought in both anthropology and the law by globalization, Nader speaks to the increasing dominance of large business corporations and the prominence of neoliberal ideology and practice today. In her discussion of these trends, she considers the rise of the alternative dispute resolution movement, which since the 1960s has been part of a major overhaul of the U.S. judicial system. Nader links the increasing popularity of this movement with the erosion of the plaintiff's power and suggests that mediation as an approach to conflict resolution is structured to favor powerful--often corporate--interests.

The Life of the Law: Anthropological Projects

University of California Press

Legal History

The Zapotec observe that 'a bad compromise is better than a good fight'. Why? This study of the legal system of the Zapotec village of Talea suggests that compromise and, more generally, harmony are strategies used by colonized groups to protect themselves from encroaching powerholders or strategies the colonizers use to defend themselves against organized subordinates. Harmony models are present, despite great organizational and cultural differences, in many parts of the world. However, the basic components of harmony ideology are the same everywhere: an emphasis on conciliation, recognition that resolution of conflict is inherently good and that its reverse - continued conflict or controversy - is bad, a view of harmonious behaviour as more civilized than disputing behaviour, the belief that consensus is of greater survival value than controversy. The book's central thesis is that harmony ideology in Talea today is both a product of nearly 500 years of colonial encounter and a strategy for resisting the state's political and cultural hegemony.

Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Stanford University Press

The Zapotec observe that 'a bad compromise is better than a good fight'. Why? This study of the legal system of the Zapotec village of Talea suggests that compromise and, more generally, harmony are strategies used by colonized groups to protect themselves from encroaching powerholders or strategies the colonizers use to defend themselves against organized subordinates. Harmony models are present, despite great organizational and cultural differences, in many parts of the world. However, the basic components of harmony ideology are the same everywhere: an emphasis on conciliation, recognition that resolution of conflict is inherently good and that its reverse - continued conflict or controversy - is bad, a view of harmonious behaviour as more civilized than disputing behaviour, the belief that consensus is of greater survival value than controversy. The book's central thesis is that harmony ideology in Talea today is both a product of nearly 500 years of colonial encounter and a strategy for resisting the state's political and cultural hegemony.

Explores art that breaks down cultural stereotypes and examines the realities of life for Middle Eastern women

Forces of Change: Artists of the Arab World

Arts & Photography

National Museum of Women in the Arts(U. S.)

International Council for Women in the Arts

History & Criticism

Natl Museum of Women in the Arts

Culture and Dignity: Dialogues Between the Middle East and the West

In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship between the East and the West, revealing how cultural differences can lead to violence or a more peaceful co-existence.   Outlines an anthropology for the 21st century that focuses on the myriad connections between peoples—especially the critical intercultural dialogues between the cultures of the East and the West Takes an historical and ethnographic approach to studying the intermingling of Arab peoples and the West. Demonstrates how cultural exchange between the East and West is a two-way process Presents an anthropological perspective on issues such as religious fundamentalism, the lives of women and children, notions of violence and order

Anthropology

Wiley/Blackwell

In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship between the East and the West, revealing how cultural differences can lead to violence or a more peaceful co-existence. 
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<li>Outlines an anthropology for the 21st century that focuses on the myriad connections between peoples―especially the critical intercultural dialogues between the cultures of the East and the West</li> <li>Takes an historical and ethnographic approach to studying the intermingling of Arab peoples and the West.</li> <li>Demonstrates how cultural exchange between the East and West is a two-way process</li> <li>Presents an anthropological perspective on issues such as religious fundamentalism, the lives of women and children, notions of violence and order</li> </ul>

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No Access to Law: Alternatives to the American Judicial System

The Disputing Process in Ten Societies

The Life of the Law: Anthropological Projects

The Life of the Law: Anthropological Projects

Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village

Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village

Forces of Change: Artists of the Arab World

Culture and Dignity: Dialogues Between the Middle East and the West

Culture and Dignity: Dialogues Between the Middle East and the West

Culture and Dignity: Dialogues Between the Middle East and the West