| Description |
xiv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Law and social control -- Creating facts -- Reason, power, law -- Law as cosmology |
| Summary |
"In Law as Culture, Lawrence Rosen invites readers to consider how the facts that are adduced in a legal forum connect to the ways in which facts are constructed in other areas of everyday life, how the processes of legal decision-making partake of the logic by which the culture as a whole is put together, and how courts, mediators, or social pressures fashion a sense of the world as consistent with common sense and social identity. While the book explores issues comparatively, in each instance it relates them to contemporary Western experience."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Culture and law.
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Law and anthropology.
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| LC no. |
2005029409 |
| ISBN |
9780691125558 hardback |
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0691125554 hardback |
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