Infighting in San Francisco
Anthropology in Family Court
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14835273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Joans |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 10-13 |
| Publication date | 1997-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Practicing Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-4552 • E-ISSN: 2994-1628 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/praa.19.4.k75411402577571w |
| OpenAlex | W2057629976 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Eighteen years ago I represented six Bannock-Shoshoni women in court. I was their expert witness and convinced the presiding judge that the women had not committed fraud, had not lied to the social service departments and had not taken rent money on bad faith. They had misunderstood the language and the directions given to them by the Pocatello, Idaho agencies, an essentially cultural misunderstanding. We went to court and won all six of our cases. The women were cleared of even the hint of misconduct and I published the account in Practicing Anthropology (Problems in Pocatello: A Study in Linguistic Misunderstanding. Vol. 6, No. 3&4 1984)
Clearance · Expert witness · Faith · Family court · Federal court · Political science · Service (business · Sociology · Supreme court · Theology · Witness · History · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Law · Medicine · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |