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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Discourses and Voices in the Law | |
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| The Analysis of Discourse The Discourse of Legal Anthropology | |
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| The Discourse of the Law | |
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| The Study of Ordinary Discourse in Legal Contexts | |
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| The Courts of First Resort In Search of Informal Justice | |
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| Informal Justice: History and Theory | |
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| The Selection of Research Sites | |
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| The Unit of Analysis Data Collection | |
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| Learning to Listen | |
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| The Ethnography of Discourse Legal Accounts without Evidentiary Constraints Informal Court Accounts and Lay Jurisprudence | |
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| The Role of Judges in Shaping Accounts Some Ethnographic Conclusions about Accounts in Informal Courts | |
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| Rules versus Relationships Litigant Orientations | |
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| The Relational Litigant | |
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| The Rule-Oriented Litigant Rules versus Relationships Conflicting Modes of Presenting Information | |
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| A Case Study | |
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| The Social Distribution of Rule and Relational Orientations | |
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| The Jurisprudence of Informal Court Judges Some Observations about the Linguistic Structure of Judgments | |
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| The Jurisprudence of Judges: Some Differences in Approach to the Law | |
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| The Strict Adherent to the Law | |
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| The Law Maker The Mediator | |
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| The Authoritative Decision Maker | |
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| The Proceduralist | |
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| The Jurisprudence of Judges: Rules and Relationships? | |
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| Accounting for the Variation in Judicial Approaches to Decision Making Conclusion: The Next Question? | |
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| Concordant Orientations Easy Cases | |
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| Rule-Oriented Litigants and Judges More Elaborated Cases | |
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| Relational Litigants and Judges | |
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| The Context of Concord An Unsystematic System | |
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| The Problem of Discord: What Do Litigants Want? | |
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| Procedural Goals: Law as Therapy Substantive Goals | |
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| Finding the Hidden Agenda Misunderstanding the Power of the Court | |
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| How Does the System Maintain Itself? | |
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| Managing Discord Coping With the System | |
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| The Leaky Roof Manipulating Symbols | |
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| The Super Fixer-Upper | |
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| The Nature of Ideological Dissonance | |
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| The Social Coordinates of Ideological Dissonance | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Voice of Legal Anthropology Missing Voices in the Law | |
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| Discovering Voices | |
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| How Litigants Talk | |
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| What Litigants Say | |
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| The Interaction of Voices Implications for the Law Postscript | |
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| Questions for Future Research | |
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| A Note on Quantification | |
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| Case Summaries | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |