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Contents: Law and Anthropology: Law and societies, Peter Fitzpatrick; Representing in-between: law, anthropology and the rhetoric of interdisciplinarity, Annelise Riles. Theoretical Perspectives of Legal Anthropology in the 1990s: The folly of the 'social scientific' concept of legal pluralism, Brian Z. Tamanaha; The force of law: towards a sociology of the juridical field, Pierre Bourdieu; Controlling processes: tracing the dynamic components of power, Laura Nader; Inventing law in local settings: rethinking popular legal culture, Barbara Yngvesson. Person and Identity: The Political Subject of State and Nation: The Responsibility of the Subject and the Context of the Punishment: Sanctioned identities: legal constructions of modern personhood, Jane F. Collier, Bill Maurer and Liliana Suárez-Navaz; Transnationalism, nationalism, citizenship and property: Eastern Europe since 1989, Katherine Verdery; Alternative readings: the status of the Status of Children Act in Antigua and Barbuda, Mindie Lazarus-Black; Written identities; legal subjects in an Islamic state, Brinkley Messick; Gender, power and legal pluralism: Rajasthan, India, Erin P. Moore; Global human rights and local social movements in a legally plural world, Sally Engle Merry; Vengeance, victims and the identities of law, Austin Sarat; Reconciliation and revenge in post-apartheid South Africa: rethinking legal pluralism and human rights, Richard A. Wilson. Property: The Constitution of Owners and Objects Owned: From production to property: decollectivization and the family-land relationship in contemporary Hungary, C.M. Hann; The misrule of law: land and usurpation in Brazil, James Holston; Suspended in space: Bedouins under the law of Israel, Ronen Shamir; Culture in a sealed envelope: the concealment of Australian Aboriginal heritage and tradition in the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair, James F. Weiner; Singers of the landscape: song, history and property rights in the Malaysian rain forest, Marina Roseman; Can culture be copyrighted?, Michael F. Brown; (Im)materiality and sociality: the dynamics of intellectual property in a computer software research culture, Georgina Born; Potential property: intellectual rights and property in persons, Marilyn Strathern; The inscription of life in law: genes, patents and bio-politics, Alain Pottage. State and Law under Colonial Rule: From little king to landlord: property, law and the gift under the Madras Permanent Settlement, Nicholas B. Dirks; Rule-by-records and rule-by-reports: complementary aspects of the British imperial rule of law, Richard Saumarez Smith; Treating law as knowledge: telling colonial officers what to say to Africans about running 'their own' native courts, Sally Falk Moore; Name index.