Austin Sarat
Ashgate
Hardback
1258
2005
The essays in this volume explore recent ethnographic research into law in all societies particularly complex developed nations by socio-legal scholars across a range of disciplines. The research underscores the importance of the ethnographic approach as a means of highlighting the realities of legal pluralism the subtle contradictions in any legal system and how legal meaning is constantly reproduced on the ground through the cultural frames and practices of peoples' everyday lives.