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This seems to be the flipside of the "amoral famialism" of the Italian village--a study of the legal anthropology of Shasta County California and its evolution of informal enforcement of necessary fence-building, stray livestock and damages norms amongst farmers, ranchers and town residents, as well as conflicts with hobby farmers and outsiders. Good reputations, the need for reciprocal help (brushfires, snow removal, construction tools), likelihood of long association between neighbors, as well as the unsuitability of California law (open and closed ranges, tort rules on collisions with cows in the road, etc.) and absence of people to enforce it have produced a working system Ellickson studies as it comes into conflict with a couple of persistent free-riders (Frank Ellis, outsider and obnoxious hobby rancher) and travelers whose cars get smashed up and sue. This is a system intimately familiar to me from Gem County, and I wish Ellickson would follow up with a study of what must be more conflict as more outsiders come in and disrupt it. With useful comparisons to evolved norms amongst orchardmen (joint responsibility for bees), whalers and, amusingly, academic photocopying banditry.