Dilemmas of modernity
Subtitle: Bolivian encounters with law and liberalism
By: Mark Goodale.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780804759816; 9780804759823
Subjects: Sociological jurisprudence -- Bolivia; Law and the social sciences -- Bolivia; Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights -- Bolivia; Liberalism -- Bolivia; Human rights -- Bolivia; Social change -- Bolivia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern dilemmas; title: Paris in the Andes : law and the modern subject; title: The making of a legal universe : law and the practice of everyday life; title: Courts of desire : gender, power, and the law; title: Human rights and the moral imagination : becoming liberal in the norte de Potosí; title: Modern dreams : an ethnography of grandeur; title: Conclusion : new revolutionary moves.