'Kenneth Maddock, who died in June, was born in New Zealand. He graduated in law at Auckland University in 1960, and began practising, but made this his daytime job, while studying part-time for an MA in Anthropology. Preferring the uncertainties of a career in anthropology to a secure profession downtown, he nevertheless maintained an interest in legal anthropology, and perhaps unexpectedly spent a part of the final decade of his career as an expert witness in court cases concerned with Aboriginal issues.' (Introduction)