Law and anthropology
By: edited by Michael Freeman and David Napier.
Contributors: Freeman, Michael D. A.; Napier, A. David.
Series: Current legal issues ; 2008, vol. 12; Current legal publications
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 569
ISBN-13: 9780199580910
Subjects: Law and anthropology
Description: '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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Riding or killing the centaur : reflections on the identities of legal anthropology / Franz von Benda-Beckmann; title: Law and anthropology : old relations, new relativities / Carol Greenhouse; title: Law and anthropology in a "glocal" world : the challenge of dialogue / Christoph Eberhard; title: Cultural conflicts / Annelise Riles; title: Ethnography in ordinary case law / Rebecca R. French; title: From tribal Tibet : the significance of the legal form / Fernanda Pirie; title: Anthropological perspectives on legal pluralism and governance in a transnational world / Anne Griffiths; title: Anthropologists in the Canadian courts / Elizabeth Cassell; title: Legal foundations for the recognition of customary law in the post-colonial South Pacific / Erika J. Techera; title: Indigeneity and the expert : negotiating identity in the case of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve / Maria Sapignoli; title: The lie of the land : suturing the jural and the ritual in Fiji, Western Pacific / Allen Abramson; title: The role of social representations in the production and application of the law : a case study of property law in Senegal / Caroline Plançon; title: Categories of intellectual property and biodiversity in western inspired legal cultures / Claudia Ituarte-Lima; title: Indigenous peoples and the right of political autonomy in an age of global legal pluralism / Steven Wheatley; title: Relating to the subjects of human rights : the culture of agency in human rights discourse / Sally Engle Merry; title: Multicultural interlegality? : negotiating family law in the context of Muslim legal pluralism in the UK / Samia Bano; title: Professional integrity / Richard Abel; title: Discipline exchange on swaps / Marie-Andrée Jacob; title: Bestia sacer and Agamben's anthropological machine : biomedical/legal taxonomies as somatechnologies of human and nonhuman animals : ethico-political relations / Robin Mackenzie; title: Framing the family in late imperial China : an anthropological glance at some family cases in the conspectus of penal cases (Xingan huilan) / Françoise Lauwaert; title: The rules of Buddhist monks : issues of property and pollution / Malcolm Voyce.