Legalism : rules and categories /
Mainstream historians in recent decades have often treated formal categories and rules as something to be 'used' by individuals, as one might use a stick or stone, and the gains of an earlier legal history are often needlessly set aside. Anthropologists, meanwhile, have treated rules as an...
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Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2015
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Edition: | First edition |
Series: | Legalism ;
v. 3 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : rules and categories : an overview / Paul Dresch and Judith Scheele
- Rules, culture, and imagination in Sanskrit jurisprudence / Donald R. Davis Jr.
- Written law as words to live by / Paul Dresch
- Telling stories about (Roman) law : rules and concepts in legal discourse / Caroline Humfress
- Rules, proverbs, and persuasion : legalism and rhetoric in Tibet / Fernanda Pirie
- 'Half-free' categories in the early Middle Ages : fine status distinctions before professional lawyers / Alice Rio
- In praise of disorder : breaking the rules in northern Chad / Judith Scheele
- A polyphony of rules and categories : the case of early Rus / Simon Franklin
- Categories and consequences in Amazonia / Elizabeth Ewart
- Legalism and the care of the self : Sharīʻa discourse in contemporary Lebanon / Morgan Clarke