"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 structures and individual experience. The authors
explore in a novel way the relations between culture and ideology,
system and practice, social action and human intention. They
develop a model that lays bare the form and content of "legal" and
"political" discourse in all its variations--a model that accounts
for the outcome of conflict processes and explains why the Tswana,
like people in other cultures, conceive of their world in an
apparently contradictory manner--as rule-governed yet inherently
open to pragmatic individualism; orderly yet inherently fluid and
shifting. "Rules and Processes" offers a fresh and persuasive
approach to our understanding of the dialectics of social life.
"A work of impressive scholarship in which theoretical
sophistication and ethnographic richness are convincingly
matched."--Ian Hamnett, "Times Higher Education Supplement. "
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
June 1986 |
| First published: |
June 1986 |
| Authors: |
John L. Comaroff
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| Dimensions: |
220 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
304 |
| Edition: |
New edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-11425-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-226-11425-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780226114255 |
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