History and Power in the Study of Law : New Directions in Legal Anthropology /

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Other Authors: Collier, Jane Fishburne, Starr, June
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Resisting and consolidating state-level legal systems: The symbolic vocabulary of public executions / Anton Blok
  • Law and social change in nineteenth-century Norway / Vilhelm Aubert
  • A redistributive model for analyzing government mediation and law in family, community, and industry in a New England industrial city / June Nash
  • Constitution-making in Islamic Iran: the impact of theocracy on the legal order of a nation-state / Said Amir Arjomand
  • pt. 2. Exporting and extending legal orders: Law and the colonial state in India / Bernard S. Cohn
  • Contours of change: agrarian law in colonial Uganda, 1895-1962 / Joan Vincent
  • Thinking about "interests": legislative process in the European community / Francis G. Snyder
  • pt. 3. Receiving and rejecting national legal processes: The impact of second republic labor reforms in Spain / George A. Collier
  • Entrepreneurs and the law: self-employed Surinamese in Amsterdam / Jeremy Boissevain and Hanneke Grotenbreg
  • Interpreting American litigiousness / Carol J. Greenhouse
  • pt. 4. Constructing and shaping law: History and the redefinition of custom on Kilimanjaro / Sally Falk Moore
  • Islamic "case law" and the logic of consequence / Lawrence Rosen
  • The crown, the colonists, and the course of Zapotec village law / Laura Nader
  • The "invention" of early legal ideas: Sir Henry Maine and the perpetual tutelage of women / June Starr.