The Anthropology of Law

by Fernanda Pirie

Book Overview

Questions about the nature of law, its relationship with custom, and the distinctive form of legal rules, categories, and reasoning, are placed at the centre of this introduction to the anthropology of law. It brings empirical scholarship within the scope of legal philosophy, while suggesting new avenues of inquiry for the anthropologist.

Going beyond the functional and instrumental aspects of law that underlie traditional ethnographic studies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199696845
• ISBN13: 9780199696840
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"