Exam 7: Law and Politics

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According to Nordstrom in "Illegal Economies and the Untold Story oAmputees," the Muleque woman had friends in government, as well as in the mining and transport industries, who regularly took their wares on flights or trucks going across the country.

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According to Spradley and McCurdy in "Law and Order," the rule in Ralu'a thaprincipales and their families should nouse the courto settle family disputes is an example of

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Some othe mosimportanaspects oa patrimonial authority are the speed and precision with which ioperates and the lack opersonalized relationships and irrational considerations thaiincorporates.

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The righto make and enforce public policy is called

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According to Sutherland in "The Case oan American Gypsy," Gypsies frequently take one another's Social Security numbers in order to hide their identities.

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In "The Case oan American Gypsy," Anne Sutherland describes a legal case in which a 19-year-old Gypsy man was convicted ousing someone else's Social Security number, despite the facthahe had no intention odefrauding anyone.

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When Eames was finally able to obtain her visa, icame through due to

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In slash-and-burn agriculture, small pieces oland are cultivated for a few years until the soil is no longer fertile; then the piece oland is abandoned.

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According to Elizabeth Eames in "Negotiating Nigerian Bureaucracies," Nigerian bureaucracies, like those in the west, are organized on the principle Max Weber called legal domination.

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In Nordstrom's article "Illegal Economies and the Untold Story oAmputees," the local coordinator for an NGO working with the amputees felthataking the goods made by the Muleque women on an official NGO flighwas an improper use othe NGO's equipment.

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Any guidelines thacan lead directly to action are called "policy."

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In "Illegal Economies and the Untold Story oAmputees," Nordstrom observes thathe earnings, networks, and contributions to developmenby the amputees and other women in Africa

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When the members oa society permitwo people to settle a dispute by fighting each other, we call their action self?redress and classify ias parothe legal system.

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In "The Case oan American Gypsy," Sutherland notes thathe young Gypsy man she helped to defend in courrefused to eajail food, as a protesfor nobeing allowed to call his relatives.

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According to Eames in "Negotiating Nigerian Bureaucracies," patrimonial authority is one thais organized as an extension oa noble household, where officials acas household servants and are dependents othe ruler.

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According to Spradley and McCurdy in "Law and Order," the system olegal levels in the Zapotec village oRalu'a means thadisputes can only be settled by the presidente or principales.

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According to Spradley and McCurdy in "Law and Order," a legal principle is defined as an agreed-upon way to settle a dispute.

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The case othe Gypsy defendandescribed by Sutherland in "The Case oan American Gypsy" represents a good illustration owhahappens when

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According to Nordstrom in "Illegal Economies and the Untold Story oAmputees," the United Nations worker equated __________ to the invisible center ogravity othe society.

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According to Nordstrom in "Illegal Economies and the Untold Story oAmputees," land mines successfully deter soldiers and protecsensitive sites.

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