History and Power in the Study of Law : New Directions in Legal Anthropology

History and Power in the Study of Law New Directions in Legal Anthropology

Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the 'legal' as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Starr, June (Editor), Collier, Jane F., editor (editor), Starr, June, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press 2018
[2018]
Colección:Anthropology of Contemporary .
Materias:
Law and anthropology > Congresses.
Law > History > Congresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: Dialogues in Legal Anthropology / Starr, June / Collier, Jane F.
  • PART I. Resisting and Consolidating State-"Level "Legal Systems
  • 1. The Symbolic Vocabulary of Public Executions / Blok, Anton
  • 2. Law and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Norway / Aubert, Vilhelm
  • 3. A Redistributive Model for Analyzing Government Mediation and Law in Family, Community, and Industry in a New England Industrial City / Nash, June
  • 4. Constitution-Making in Islamic Iran: The Impact of Theocracy on the Legal Order of a Nation-State / Arjomand, Said Amir
  • PART II. Exporting and Extending Legal Orders
  • 5. Law and the Colonial State in India / Cohn, Bernard S.
  • 6. Contours of Change: Agrarian Law in Colonial Uganda, 1895-1962 / Vincent, Joan
  • 7. Thinking about "Interests": Legislative Process in the European Community / Snyder, Francis G.
  • Part III. Receiving and Rejecting National Legal Processes
  • 8. The Impact of Second Republic Labor Reforms in Spain / Collier, George A.
  • 9. Entrepreneurs and the Law: Self-employed Surinamese in Amsterdam / Boissevain, Jeremy / Grotenbreg, Hanneke
  • 10. Interpreting American Litigiousness / Greenhouse, Carol J.
  • Part IV. Constructing and Shaping Law
  • 11. History and the Redefinition of Custom on Kilimanjaro / Moore, Sally Falk
  • 12. Islamic "Case Law" and the Logic of Consequence / Rosen, Lawrence
  • 13. The Crown, the Colonists, and the Course of Zapotec / Nader, Laura
  • 14. The "Invention" of Early Legal Ideas: Sir Henry Maine and the Perpetual Tutelage of Women / Starr, June
  • Index

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