Law, Culture, and Ritual Rosaline S. Barbour Both professional historians and armchair

Both professional historians and armchair devotees of American history will want to add this important new work to their libraries

By opening our minds to what science has discovered about our realities

co-chair of the campaign

and what societies can do to protect themselves against excessive coercion

who feels another's pain

Law, Culture, and Ritual Rosaline S. Barbour Both professional historians and armchairDisputing systems are products of the societies in which they operate they originate and mutate in response to disputes that are particular to specific social, cultural, and political contexts. Disputing procedures, therefore, are an important medium through which fundamental beliefs, values, and symbols of culture are communicated, preserved, and sometimes altered. In Law, Culture, and Ritual, Oscar G. Chase uses interdisciplinary scholarship to