Practicing Ethnography in Law

JUNE STARR was one of the major figures in the ethnographic study of law and, until her death last year, was Professor at the Indiana University School of Law, USA.MARK GOODALE is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, Virginia, USA.

• Preface; J.Starr, J.Collier & S.Merry Introduction - Legal Ethnography: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods; J.Starr & M.Goodale PART I: PERFORMING LEGAL ETHNOGRAPHY Feminist Participatory Research on Legal Consciousness; S.Hirsch Trekking Processual Planes Beyond the Rule of Law; P.Parnell Legal Ethnography in an Era of Globalization: The Arrival of Western Human Rights Discourse to Rural Bolivia; M.Goodale Analyzing Witchcraft Beliefs; J.Collier Exploring Legal Culture in Law-Avoidance Societies; R.Kidder Reconceptualizing Research: Ethnographic Fieldwork and Immigration Politics in Southern California; S.Coutin Ethnography in the Archives; S.Engle Merry Stories from the Field: Collecting Data Outside Over There; H.M.Kritzer Doing Ethnography: Living Law, Life Histories, and Narratives from Botswana; A.Griffiths PART II: REFLECTIONS ON ETHNOGRAPHY IN LAW A Few Thoughts on Ethnography, History, and Law; L.Friedman Moving On: Comprehending Anthropologies of Law; L.Nader