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Cornell University Press Law and Community in Three American Towns

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Many commentators on the contemporary United States believe that current rates of litigation are a sign of decay in the nation’s social fabric. Law and Community in Three American Towns explores how ordinary people in three towns―located in New England, the Midwest, and the South―view the law, courts, litigants, and social order. Carol J. Greenhouse, Barbara Yngvesson, and David M. Engel analyze attitudes toward law and law users as a way of commentating on major American myths and ongoing changes in American society. They show that residents of "Riverside," "Sander County," and "Hopewell" interpret litigation as a sign of social decline, but they also value law as a symbol of their local way of life. The book focuses on this ambivalence and relates it to the deeply-felt tensions express between "community" and "rights" as rival bases of society. The authors, two anthropologists and a lawyer, each with an understanding of a particular region, were surprised to discover that such different locales produced parallel findings. They undertook a comparative project to find out why ambivalence toward the law and law use should be such a common refrain. The answer, they believe, turns out to be less a matter of local traditions than of the ways that people perceive the patterns of their lives as being vulnerable to external forces of change. Review As established scholars in the field of law-and-society, these three authors have studied the interrelation between law and community in three locales in New England, the Midwest, and the South. Using interviews and case studies, they explore the links between the cultural ideas of individualism and community. Their more specific focus is on the role of law and of the courts in the cultural framework of their selected communities. A principal conclusion is that 'community' is 'a term that expresses a modern retrenchment against new forms of pluralism in the United States.' The text is clearly written and contains useful and up-to-date bibliography.-- "Choice" About the Author Carol J. Greenhouse is Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. She is the author of Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town and A Moment's Notice: Time Politics across Cultures, both available from Cornell. Barbara Yngvesson is Professor of Anthropology at Hampshire College. David M. Engel is the SUNY Distinguished Service Professor at the University at Buffalo Law School.

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Brand: Cornell University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0801429595
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 03 June 1994
Listed Since: 02 February 2007

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