Little Injustices: Laura Nader Looks at the Law

Little Injustices: Laura Nader Looks at the Law

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Little Injustices: Laura Nader Looks at the Law

1981

0h 59m

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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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