Please review the following book > Comaroff, J. & S. Roberts. 1981. Rules and Processes: the cultural logic of dispute in an African context. Chicago: University Press.

The books needs to be placed in a wider context on topic of Disputes and Disputing in Legal anthropology. Please chose from the sources below and please start with the CORE readings

*Kritzer, H. 2011. ‘The antecedents of disputes: Complaining and Claiming’, Onati Socio-Legal Series 1 at: http://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=faculty_articles

*Moore, S. F. 1972/3. ‘Law and social change: The semi-autonomous social field as an appropriate subject of study’, Law & Society Review 7: 719-46

Roberts, S. & M. Palmer. Eds. 2008. ‘Disputes and Dispute Processes’ (chap. 4) in Dispute Processes. ADR and the primary forms of decision-making. Cambridge: UP. [read other chapters as well]

Key readings
Caplan, P. Ed. 1995. Understanding Disputes. Oxford: Berg. [Introduction, chaps. 1 & 2]

Comaroff, J. & S. Roberts. 1981. Rules and Processes: the cultural logic of dispute in an African context. Chicago: University Press.

Felsteiner, W., R. Abel & A. Sarat. 1980-81. ‘The emergence and transformation of disputes: naming, blaming, claiming …’, Law & Society Review 15: 3 /4: 631-654

Galanter, M. 1983. ‘Reading the landscape of disputes: What we know and don’t know a(and think we know) about our allegedly litigious society”, 3 UCLA Law Review 4: 5-69 (October)

Gulliver, P. 1963. Social Control in an African Society. Boston: University Press.

Moore, S. F. 1986. Social facts and fabrications: ‘customary’ law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Nader, L. 1999. Harmony Ideology: Justice and control in a Zapotec Mountain village. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

*Nader, L. & H. Todd. Eds. 1978. The disputing process: law in ten societies. NY: Columbia University Press. [Introduction and chaps. 5 & 8; these are also on the BLE]

Seron, C. 1996. ‘Law and inequality: race, gender … and of course, Class’, Annual Review of Sociology 22: 187-212

You are expected to provide a reasonable summary/description of the book, and to critically discuss its contribution against the background of published work in the area it addresses (e.g. disputing, law as ideology, courts, legal actors etc.). In short, you must situate the book against a wider and appropriate literature. For a good example of how to do this, look at any issue of AFRICA and read the ‘Review Article’ [the only difference is that unlike the ‘Review Article’ you will only be reviewing ONE book]. Any books or papers that you refer to in your review should be correctly cited in the text and a complete reference should be provided in a bibliography at the end of the review. Your book review should be word-processed.