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CONTENTS

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Contributors xvii
Introduction: T h e Disputing Process 1
LAURA N A D E R AND HARRY F . T O D D , JR.

1. Pigs and Politics in the New Guinea Highlands:

Conflict Escalation Among the Jalé 41
KLAUS-FRIEDRICH K O C H

2. The Atlantic Fishermen 59

BARBARA B . YNGVESSON

3. Litigious Marginals: Character and Disputing in a

Bavarian Village 86
HARRY F . T O D D , JR.

4. Turkish Village Disputing Behavior 122

JUNE STARR

5. The Social Dynamics of Dispute Settlement in a

Sunni Muslim Village in Lebanon 152
JOHN E . ROTHENBERGER

6. A Good Name is Worth More Than Money:

Strategies of Court Use in Urban Ghana 181
M I C H A E L J. LOWY
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7. Disputing Over Livestock in Sardinia 209

JULIO L . RUFFINI

8. Dispute Settlement and Dispute Processing in Zambia:

Individual Choice versus Societal Constraints 247
RICHARD S . CANTER

9. Disputing Issues in Shehaam, a Multireligious Village

in Lebanon 281
CATHIE J. W I T T Y

10. Village or State? Competitive Legal Systems in a

Mexican Judicial District 315
PHILIP PARNELL

References 35i
Index 363

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