Rules and Processes is a complex but eminently successful excursion into the logic of dispute processes among two Tswana peoples of southern Africa and an innovative processual analysis that deserves to be ranked with the foremost studies in the processual mode in recent years. One of the rare collaborations of anthropologist (Comaroff) and lawyer (Roberts), the book may well become as influential as the pioneer research of Llewellyn and Hoebel. Unlike the latter, however, Comaroff and Roberts have eschewed a juristic approach, choosing instead to focus on process. The ensuing book attests a singular unity of thought, cast in anthropological rather than legal terminology…A stimulating, theoretically sophisticated, and subtle analysis, Rules and Processes deserves wide attention. The work is consonant with (while not derived from) nonpositivist approaches that have attracted contemporary sociocultural anthropologists, such as phenomenology, symbolic interactionism, structuralism, and semantic analysis; perhaps, too, the seminal work of Weber may be cited. This is an exciting treatise.