The power of law in a transnational world anthropological enquiries
By: Edited by Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths.
Contributors: Benda-Beckmann, Franz von.; Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von.; Griffiths, Anne M. O.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845454234
Subjects: Legal polycentricity; Law and globalization; Law and anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The military order of 13 November 2001 : an ethnographic reading / Carol J. Greenhouse; title: Law and the frontiers of illegalities / Laura Nader; title: Selective scrutiny : supranational engagement with minority protection and rights in Europe / Jane K. Cowan; title: The globalization of fatwas amidst the terror wars against pluralism / Upendra Baxi; title: Human rights, cultural relativism and legal pluralism : towards a two-dimensional debate / Franz von Benda-Beckmann; title: Learning communities and legal spaces : community-based fisheries; title: Management in a globalizing world / Melanie G. Wiber and John F. Kearney; title: Project law, a power instrument of development agencies : a case study from Burundi / Markus Weilenmann; title: Half-told truth and partial silence : managing communication in Scottish children's hearings / Anne Griffiths and Randy F. Kandel; title: Keeping the stream of justice clear and pure : the  Buddhicization of Bhutanese law / Richard W. Whitecross; title: Balancing Islam, Adat and the state : comparing Islamic and civil courts in indonesia / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann; title: Kings, monks, bureaucrats and the police : Tibetan responses to law and authority / Fernanda Pirie.