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Mapping marriage law in Spanish Gitano communities / Susan G. Drummond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drummond, Susan G. (Susan Gay), 1959-
- Series:
- Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
- Law and society series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage law--Spain.
- Marriage law.
- Romanies--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Romanies.
- Spain.
- Law, Romani.
- Romanies--Legal status, laws, etc--Spain.
- Domestic relations--Spain.
- Domestic relations.
- Andalusia (Spain)--Social life and customs.
- Andalusia (Spain).
- Law and anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- x, 271 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Comparative law and legal anthropology have traditionally restricted themselves to their own fields of inquiry. Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities turns this tendency on its head and investigates what happens when the voices of each discipline are invited to speak to each other. Susan Drummond forges this hybrid form of work through small- and large-scale studies of Gitano marriage law as it developed in a Western European state, in a modern urban centre, and in particular communities and families.
- Drummond's mapping of Gitano marriage law is grounded in ethnographic field work in Andalucia. The study draws initially from the tradition of comparative law to focus on the emergence of Spanish state family law in a predominantly national and international context. Drummond then adopts the role of legal anthropologist to examine a particular legal culture that exists within, and also beyond, the Spanish state: that of the Gitanos and the transnational Roma. Ultimately, she brings the international, national, and cultural dimensions of law into play with one another and contemplates how all of these influences bear on the spirit of Andalusian Gitano marriage law. The result is an ethos of marriage law in a thoroughly mixed legal jurisdiction.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Le Guide du Routard 3
- Synoptic Overview 3
- Itinerary 4
- Approach 8
- Preparations 10
- Souvenir 25
- Chapter 1 State: Intersections in Spanish Family Law 27
- The Persistence of "Otherness" 30
- Religion's Domain 34
- Shifting Contexts for Legal Reform 40
- Shifting Esprit des lois 47
- Women and the Spirit of Family Law 54
- Weak and Deep Pluralism of the Official Family 60
- New Forms of Spanish Pluralism 69
- The Contemporary Jurisdiction of Religion in the Official Family 72
- Conflicting Dominions in Family Law 75
- The Mystification of Reform through Law 79
- Liminal Tones, Characters, and Moods 85
- Chapter 2 Culture: Wanderings and Dwellings 93
- Deep Pluralism and the Gypsies 97
- A Jurisdictional Model of the Gypsies for a Jurisdictional Model of Gypsy Law 103
- Matter Out of Place 110
- Reconceptualizing Gypsyhood 121
- The Great Gitano Roundup: Rounding Off the State through Law 130
- The Production of Gitanitude 146
- Flamenco Puro and Pure Gitanitude 162
- Chapter 3 Marriage: Hidden and Enacted Ius Commune 173
- Hidden Constitutions 176
- Multi-Sited Comparative Law 186
- The Plurality of Ius Commune 191
- Hidden Marriages 200
- Hidden Marriages within Hidden Marriages 212
- The Place of Gitano Family Law in Andalucia, Spain, and Europe 220
- Conclusion: Voyage through a Strange City 237
- The Place of Jerez de la Frontera 242
- A Wandering and a Dwelling Law 244.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0774809256
- OCLC:
- 61361186
- Publisher Number:
- 9780774809252
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