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Arguing with tradition : the language of law in Hopi Tribal court / Justin B. Richland.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Chicago series in law and societyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 187 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226712963
  • 0226712966
  • 0226712931
  • 9780226712932
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Arguing with tradition.DDC classification:
  • 346.7301/3 22
LOC classification:
  • KF8228.H67 R53 2008eb
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Contents:
Arguing with tradition in Native America -- Making a Hopi Nation : "Anglo" law comes to Hopi country -- "What are you going to do with the village's knowledge?" : language ideologies and legal power in Hopi tribal court -- "He could not speak Hopi. ... that puzzle puzzled me" : the pragmatic paradoxes of Hopi tradition in court -- Suffering into truth : Hopi law as narrative interaction.
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Summary: Exploring both language and legal issues, this work explains how notions of Hopi tradition and culture shape and are shaped by the processes of Hopi jurisprudence as it comes increasingly to differentiate itself from Anglo-American law.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-178) and index.

Arguing with tradition in Native America -- Making a Hopi Nation : "Anglo" law comes to Hopi country -- "What are you going to do with the village's knowledge?" : language ideologies and legal power in Hopi tribal court -- "He could not speak Hopi. ... that puzzle puzzled me" : the pragmatic paradoxes of Hopi tradition in court -- Suffering into truth : Hopi law as narrative interaction.

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Exploring both language and legal issues, this work explains how notions of Hopi tradition and culture shape and are shaped by the processes of Hopi jurisprudence as it comes increasingly to differentiate itself from Anglo-American law.

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