Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an African Context - Brossura

Comaroff, John L. L.; Roberts, Simon

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226114252 ISBN 13: 9780226114255

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 1986

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

Informazioni sull?autore

John L. Comaroff, Chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Chicago, is the coauthor (with Jean Comaroff) of Of Revelation and Revolution, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Simon Roberts is professor of law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226114252
• ISBN 13: 9780226114255
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 303
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile