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The law is a white dog : how legal rituals make and unmake persons / Colin Dayan.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dayan, Colin, author.
Contributor:
ebrary, Inc.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Persons (Law)--United States.
Persons (Law).
Slavery--Law and legislation--United States.
Slavery.
Slavery--Law and legislation.
Law--Social aspects.
Law.
United States.
Torture--United States.
Torture.
Civil rights--United States.
Civil rights.
Law--Social aspects--United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvii, 343 pages)
Place of Publication:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]
System Details:
text file
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
OCLC:
708566306
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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