| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 271 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The military order of 13 November 2001 : an ethnographic reading / Carol J. Greenhouse -- Law and the frontiers of illegalities / Laura Nader -- Selective scrutiny : supranational engagement with minority protection and rights in Europe / Jane K. Cowan -- The globalization of fatwas amidst the terror wars against pluralism / Upendra Baxi -- Human rights, cultural relativism and legal pluralism : towards a two-dimensional debate / Franz von Benda-Beckmann -- Learning communities and legal spaces : community-based fisheries management in a globalizing world / Melanie G. Wiber and John F. Kearney -- Project law : a power instrument of development agencies : a case study from Burundi / Markus Weilenmann -- Half-told truths and partial silence : managing communication in Scottish children's hearings / Anne Griffiths and Randy F. Kandel -- Keeping the stream of justice clear and pure : the Buddhicization of Bhutanese law / Richard W. Whitecross -- Balancing Islam, Adat and the state : comparing Islamic and civil courts in Indonesia / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann -- Kings, monks, bureaucrats and the police : Tibetan responses to law and authority / Fernanda Pirie |
| Summary |
How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured through social processes that frame both its continuity and transformation over time. The volume highlights how power is deployed under conditions of legal pluralism, exploring its effects on livelihoods and on social institutions, including the state. Such an approach not only demonstrates how the state, through its various development programs and organizational structures, attempts to control territory and people, but also relates the mechanisms of state control to other legal modes of control and regulation at both local and supranational levels |
| Notes |
Based on a series of conferences organized by the School of Law, Edinburgh University, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Salle, Germany, on the development of the anthropology of law |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Legal polycentricity -- Congresses
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Law and globalization -- Congresses
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Law and anthropology -- Congresses
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LAW -- Essays.
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LAW -- General Practice.
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
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LAW -- Practical Guides.
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LAW -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Law and anthropology
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Law and globalization
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Legal polycentricity
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Recht
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Globalisierung
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Anthropologie
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Benda-Beckmann, Franz von.
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Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von.
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Griffiths, Anne M. O.
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| ISBN |
9781845459161 |
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1845459164 |
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