Law and anthropology
Freeman, Michael D. A.
Napier, A. DavidContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2009.
'Law and Anthropology' offers an insight into the state of law and anthropology scholarship today. Focusing on the inter-connections between the two disciplines it also includes case studies from around the world.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
'Law and Anthropology' offers an insight into the state of law and anthropology scholarship today. Focusing on the inter-connections between the two disciplines it also includes case studies from around the world.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Riding or killing the centaur : reflections on the identities of legal anthropology / Franz von Benda-Beckmann -- Law and anthropology : old relations, new relativities / Carol Greenhouse -- Law and anthropology in a "glocal" world : the challenge of dialogue / Christoph Eberhard -- Cultural conflicts / Annelise Riles -- Ethnography in ordinary case law / Rebecca R. French -- From tribal Tibet : the significance of the legal form / Fernanda Pirie -- Anthropological perspectives on legal pluralism and governance in a transnational world / Anne Griffiths -- Anthropologists in the Canadian courts / Elizabeth Cassell -- Legal foundations for the recognition of customary law in the post-colonial South Pacific / Erika J. Techera -- Indigeneity and the expert : negotiating identity in the case of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve / Maria Sapignoli -- The lie of the land : suturing the jural and the ritual in Fiji, Western Pacific / Allen Abramson -- The role of social representations in the production and application of the law : a case study of property law in Senegal / Caroline Plançon -- Categories of intellectual property and biodiversity in western inspired legal cultures / Claudia Ituarte-Lima -- Indigenous peoples and the right of political autonomy in an age of global legal pluralism / Steven Wheatley -- Relating to the subjects of human rights : the culture of agency in human rights discourse / Sally Engle Merry -- Multicultural interlegality? : negotiating family law in the context of Muslim legal pluralism in the UK / Samia Bano -- Professional integrity / Richard Abel -- Discipline exchange on swaps / Marie-Andrée Jacob -- Bestia sacer and Agamben's anthropological machine : biomedical/legal taxonomies as somatechnologies of human and nonhuman animals : ethico-political relations / Robin Mackenzie -- Framing the family in late imperial China : an anthropological glance at some family cases in the conspectus of penal cases (Xingan huilan) / Françoise Lauwaert -- The rules of Buddhist monks : issues of property and pollution / Malcolm Voyce.
Law and anthropology
Law, General & Comparative
Law, Politics & Government