Author: Lazarus-Black, Mindie
Title: Legitimate Acts and Illegal Encounters: Law and Society in Antigua and Barbuda
Description: Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, (1994). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xxv,357 pp. Textual tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: Life & Law in the Common Order; Fashioning a Creole Society; Legal Sensibilities in the Common Order: Revolution & Rights at Court; Constructing the Kinship Order: Antiguan Family Law, 1632-1834; Legalities, Illegalities & Creole Families in the Common Order, 1632 - 1834; The Postemancipation Period, 1834-1986: The Era of Free Individuals & Governable Families; Family Life in the Common Order After Slavery; Making & Breaking Alliances: Family Crises & Kinship Legalities in the 1980s; Cases, Courts & Family Ideology in the Common Order; The Present & Future of Kinship Legalities; Conclusions.

Keywords: Ethnological Jurisprudence, Colonial Caribbean, Social Anthropology, Legal Sociology, Ethnography Law, Antigua Ethnology, Barbuda Kinship, Creole Sociological, Customary Family