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PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volume 20. Issue 2. November 1997

Contents:

From the Editors

1. From the Editors
   
   1. Bill Maurer
      Sally Engle Merry

Articles

1. Looking In/Acting Out: Gender, Modernity, and the (Re)production of the Palestinian Family
   
   1. Elizabeth Faier
2. The Legal Liminality Of Battered Women Who Kill Their Abusers
   
   1. Stephanie J. Brommer
3. The Powers and Pitfalls of Gender Essentialism: Policing Male-to-Female Violence in Brazil
   
   1. Sarah Hautzinger
4. Spatial Practices and Bodily Maneuvers: Negotiating at the Margins of a Local Sexual Economy
   
   1. Lisa Sanchez
5. Domestic Violence And Immigration In Britain
   
   1. Susan Sterett
6. Life Stories, Disclosure and the Law
   
   1. Michelle McKinley
7. Conciliation and Domestic Violence in Senegal, West Africa
   
   1. Scott London
8. Young Victims: International Child Custody Disputes at Century's End
   
   1. June Starr

Methodology

1. Of Law and the Tears of Things: Notes on the Varieties of Legal Consciousness
   
   1. Jacqueline Mraz
2. Understanding Victimization and Agency: Considerations of Race, Class and Gender
   
   1. Patricia Connell
3. Ground Water Irrigation and Property Rights in Northwestern Spain
   
   1. David Guillet

Book Reviews

1. Obernberg: A Quantitative Analysis of a Tirolean Peasant Economy
   
   1. Daniel Strouthes

Syllabus

1. Anthropology 202/History 222: Politics and Symbolism at the Interface of Anthropology and History
   
   1. David Kertzer

Announcement

1. Announcement