Law, Anthropology, and the Constitution of the Social: Making Persons and Things

Book Overview

This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores how persons and things - the central elements of the social - are fabricated by legal rituals and institutions. The contributors, legal and anthropological theorists alike, focus on a set of specific institutional and ethnographic contexts, and some unexpected and thought-provoking analogies emerge from this intellectual encounter between law and anthropology. For example, contemporary anxieties...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521539455
• ISBN13: 9780521539456
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"