Practicing Ethnography in Law : New Dialogues, Enduring Methods

Acknowledgments ix Preface: June Starr xi Jane F. Collier Sally Engle Merry Introduction: Legal Ethnography: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods 1(12) June Starr Mark Goodale Part I Performing Legal Ethnography Feminist Participatory Research on Legal Consciousness 13(21) Susan F. Hirsch Trekking Processual Planes beyond the Rule of Law 34(16) Philip C. Parnell Legal Ethnography in an Era of Globalization: The Arrival of Western Human Rights Discourse to Rural Bolivia 50(22) Mark Goodale Analyzing Witchcraft Beliefs 72(15) Jane F. Collier Exploring Legal Culture in Law-Avoidance Societies 87(21) Robert L. Kidder Reconceptualizing Research: Ethnographic Fieldwork and Immigration Politics in Southern California 108(20) Susan Bibler Coutin Ethnography in the Archives 128(15) Sally Engle Merry Stories from the Field: Collecting Data Outside Over There 143(17) Herbert M. Kritzer Doing Ethnography: Living Law, Life Histories, and Narratives from Botswana 160(25) Anne Griffiths Part II Reflections on Ethnography in Law A Few Thoughts on Ethnography, History, and Law 185(5) Lawrence M. Friedman Moving On---Comprehending Anthropologies of Law 190(13) Laura Nader Notes on the Contributors 203(4) Index 207