Law, Power and Culture

1. Introduction. - 2. Power, Resistance And Legal Pluralism: Processes of Freedom and Constraint. - 3. The Santal: Processes of Subordination in the State. - 4. The Primary Construction of Inequality: Kinship, Law and Ritual in the Santal Family and Village. - 5. Resisting from Without: The Illusive Promise of the Alternative Legal Order. - 6. The Realisation of Needs from Within: The Power Product and Non-Compliance. - 7. A Tripartite Theory: Power Practices and Embedded Change. - 8. Forced Marriage: Engaging with Renegotiations Within. - 9. Conclusion.