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The Cheyenne Way First Edition, Edition
Contributor(s): Llewellyn, Karl N. (Author), Hoebel, E. Adamson (Author)
ISBN: 0806118555     ISBN-13: 9780806118550
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
OUR PRICE:   $24.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 1941
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science
- History | North American
Dewey: 970.634
LCCN: 41023735
Series: Civilization of the American Indian
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.97" W x 8.96" (1.19 lbs) 392 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Plains
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
- Geographic Orientation - Colorado
- Geographic Orientation - Wyoming
 
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Publisher Description:
The Cheyenne Indians, in sharp contrast to other Plains tribes, are renowned for the clear sense of form and structure in their institutions. This cultural trait, together with the colorful background of the Cheyennes, attracted the unique collaboration of a legal theorist and an anthropologist, who, in this volume, provide a definitive picture of the law-ways of a primitive, nonliterate people.

This foundational study of primitive law presents the folkways in law of the Cheyennes through the technique of the American case lawyer, adjusted to the requirements of the anthropologist with his scientific understanding of human behavior and realistic sociology. Particularly appealing to the general reader are the law cases themselves. Based on individual episodes that reflect the legal procedure of the Cheyennes over a period of more than sixty years, the cases are heroic narratives in the finest tradition.

Contributor Bio(s): Llewellyn, Karl N.: - Karl N. Llewellyn taught for over thirty years in the law schools of Yale, Columbia (where he was Betts Professor of Jurisprudence), and the University of Chicago. He was a leader in deep and realistic study of the institution of law, especially in relation to other behavioral fields.Hoebel, E. Adamson: - E. Adamson Hoebel was Emeritus Professor of Anthropology in the University of Minnesota. He had many opportunities to observe Indian tribes, including Cheyennes, Comanches, and Shoshones. Besides this book and others, he was coauthor of The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.