Little Injustices: Laura Nader Looks at the Law (1981)
• January 23rd, 1981 • 0h 59min
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Overview
Anthropologist Laura Nader's first field trip to a Zapotec Indian village in Oaxaca, Mexico, in the late 1950s, led her to study problem-solving in the local courts. There, "little injustices" were the meat of everyday courtroom life.
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