Author: Lauderdale, Pat & Cruit, Michael
Title: The Struggle for Control: A Study of Law, Disputes, and Deviance
Description: Albany, State University of New York, (1993). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xviii,256 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ A study of nine land disputes in the Sierpe region of Costa Rica. Contents:The Scope; The Disputing Process; An Analysis of Dispute Management: The Absence of Resolution; Conflict & the Struggle for Control; Epilogue: Justice & Social Control; Appendices: Agrarian Reform in Central America; The Rationalization of Law in Costa Rica.

Keywords: Legal Anthropology, Costa Rica Sierpe, Central America, Sociology of Law, Jurisprudence, Land Tenure, Dispute Management, Disputes Disputing, Social History