ABSTRACT
Reprinted from Laura Nader, editor, Law in Culture and Society (Chicago: Aldine, 1969). Copyright © 1969 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. Herma H. Kay did her undergraduate work at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where she majored in English. She earned her J.D. degree at the University of Chicago Law School, and has been a member of the law faculty at the University of California at Berkeley since 1960. Her specialties include family law, conflict of laws, the ethnography of law, and women’s rights. She is the author of many articles in legal periodicals and has contributed to the American Anthropologist’s special issue on the ethnography of law (Volume 67, 1965).
