Introduction: Impure theories of custom and law
PART 1: Custom, law and "legality"
1. Custom and primitivity: On the unity of the legal technique
2. A three-dimensional ontology of customs
3. Land tenure and irrigation in North Vietnam's mountainous regions: Rights outside the law?
PART 2: "Codifying" customs in the face of social change
4. Oral custom: At the origin or at the fringes of law?
5. A written "customary law" among the Rwa in Tanzania
6. Are all informal normative facts custom? The ideological dimensions of company customs
7. Law, custom and social change in New Caledonia: A case-study: Gender reassignment on the customary civil register
PART 3: Custom, law and property rights
8. When land and sky turn French: Is there any place left for the Bunong when private land property disrupts customary spaces along the Vietnamese-Cambodian border?
9. Proof and test: The construction of customary land in New Caledonia
10. Customary land rules in French Provence from the Ancien Régime to our days.