Law and anthropology : a reader /
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005. |
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| Description: | xii, 371 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 5 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5360757 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- General Introduction
- Part I. Early Themes That Reappear in New Forms
- 1. Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, and Others Asking What is Morally Right: Essays on Natural Law, Ideal Law, and Human Law
- The International Bill of Rights
- Culture and Rights
- 2. Charles-Louis Montesquieu: Law as an Expression of a Particular Cultural Complex
- The Spirit of the Law
- Local Knowledge
- 3. The Contrast between Archaic Law and Modern Law
- Criticism of Maine's Theory
- 4. Evolutionist, Ethnographer
- The Historical Place of Property
- 5. Karl Marx: The Mode of Production at the Base - Law as Part of the Superstructure
- Selected Writings
- Law and Economic Organization
- 6. Emile Durkheim: Collective Consciousnesses and Law
- On Law
- Disciplinary Power and Subjection
- Law and Society in Modern India
- Modernity and Self Identity
- 7. Max Weber: The Evolution from Irrationality to Rationality in Law
- The Economy and Social Norms
- The Theory of Communicative Action
- Law and Social Science
- Equity and Discretion in a Modern Islamic Legal System
- Part II. The Early Classics of Legal Ethnography: the Real Thing - Field work on Law, Rules, Cases, and Disputes
- Introduction to the Early Classics of legal Ethnology
- 8. Crime and Custom in Savage Society
- 9. A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom
- The Judicial Process Among the Barotse of Northern
- Justice and Judgement Among the Tiv Paul Bohannan Kapaupu Papuans and Their Law
- Conclusion
- Part III. Present Thematic Approaches
- A. Struggles over Property
- 13. Objects of Property and Subjects of Politics
- 14. Where it Hurts:Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation
- 15. Disputing over Livestock in Sardinia
- 16. Consensus and Suspicion: Judicial Reasoning and Social Change in an Indonesian Society 1960-1994
- Identity and its Legal Significance
- 17. Identity in Mashpee
- 18. Locating a Reinvigorated Kentish Identity
- 19. Academic Narratives: Models and Methods in the Search for Meanings
- 20. Human rights and Nation Building
- Creating Enforceable Rules, Inside and Outside the Formal Law
- 21. Rights, Religion and Community: Approaches to Violence Aginst Women in the Context of Globalization
- 22. Regional Practices and the Marginalization of Law: Informal Financial Practices of Small Businesses in Taiwan" Jane Kaufman Winn
- 23. Enacting Law through Social Practice: Sanctuary as a Form of Resistance
- 24. Deciding Who Gets In: Decision-Making by Immigration Inspectors
- The Large Scale: Pluralism, Globalism and the Negotiation of International Disputes
- 25. Multiculturalism, Individualism and Human Rights: Romanticism, The Enlightenment and Lessons from Mauritius
- 26. Governing Economic Globalization: Global Legal Pluralism and European Union Law
- 27. Civilization and its Negotiations
- Law and the Future
- 28. Certainties Undone: Fifty Turbulent Years of Legal Anthropology, 1949-1999
