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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Other Authors: Dresch, Paul, Scheele, Judith, 1978-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015
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