num_pages: 406
description: This book explores from selected semioticians' international and cross-cultural viewpoints, the changing concepts of custom and community. The idea of the 'primitive' as a complex social system is explored in the context of recent studies of comparative law. The range of focus is from Lockean majority-rule to aboriginal self-determination, and includes a new look at waning ideologies such as the «old» feminism, Critical Legal Studies, and postmodernisms. Pragmatism is reinterpreted and reviewed with fresh eyes.
language: English
title: Conscience, Consensus, & Crossroads in Law: Eighth Round Table on Law and Semiotics
titlecomplete: Conscience, Consensus, & Crossroads in Law: Eighth Round Table on Law and Semiotics (Semiotics and the Human Sciences)
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers