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The law is a white dog : how legal rituals make and unmake persons / Colin Dayan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dayan, Colin, author.
- 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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