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The law is a white dog : how legal rituals make and unmake persons / Colin Dayan.
LIBRA KF465 .D39 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dayan, Colin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Persons (Law)--United States.
- Persons (Law).
- Slavery--Law and legislation--United States.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Torture--United States.
- Torture.
- Civil rights--United States.
- Civil rights.
- Law--Social aspects--United States.
- Law.
- Law--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 343 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Holy dogs, Hecuba's bark
- Civil death
- Punishing the residue
- Taxonomies
- A legal ethnography
- Who gets to be wanton?
- Skin of the dog.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691070919
- 0691070911
- OCLC:
- 645790693
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