History and power in the study of law : new directions in legal anthropology /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR books
Other Authors: Starr, June, Collier, Jane Fishburne
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Published: Cornell University Press, 1989
Series:Anthropology of contemporary issues.
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Online Access:http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt207g6xn
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Table of Contents:
  • Resisting and consolidating state-level legal systems:
  • The symbolic vocabulary of public executions /
  • Law and social change in nineteenth-century Norway /
  • A redistributive model for analyzing government mediation and law in family, community, and industry in a New England industrial city /
  • Constitution-making in Islamic Iran: the impact of theocracy on the legal order of a nation-state /
  • Exporting and extending legal orders:
  • Law and the colonial state in India /
  • Contours of change: agrarian law in colonial Uganda, 1895-1962 /
  • Thinking about "interests": legislative process in the European community /
  • Receiving and rejecting national legal processes:
  • The impact of second republic labor reforms in Spain /
  • Entrepreneurs and the law: self-employed Surinamese in Amsterdam /
  • Interpreting American litigiousness /
  • Constructing and shaping law:
  • History and the redefinition of custom on Kilimanjaro /
  • Islamic "case law" and the logic of consequence /
  • The crown, the colonists, and the course of Zapotec village law /
  • The "invention" of early legal ideas: Sir Henry Maine and the perpetual tutelage of women /