Legalism: Anthropology and History

by Hannah Skoda and Paul Dresch

Law and law-like institutions are visible in human societies very distant from each other in time and space. When it comes to observing and analyzing such social constructs historians, anthropologists, and lawyers run into notorious difficulties in how to conceptualize them. Do they conform to a single category of 'law'? How are divergent understandings of the nature and purpose of law to be described and explained? Such questions reach to the heart...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199664269
• ISBN13: 9780199664269
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"