History and Power in the Study of Law : New Directions in Legal Anthropology / Jane F. Collier, June Starr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Starr, June, Editor.

Contributor:

Collier, Jane F., editor.

Starr, June, editor.

en Book Program, funder.

Series:

Anthropology of Contemporary .

The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and anthropology--Congresses.

Law and anthropology.

Law--History--Congresses.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 1 map, 6 tables, 2 charts

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 2018

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

The late June Starr was Professor of Law at Indiana University. She was the author of Dispute and Settlement in Rural Turkey: An Ethnography of Law and Law as Metaphor: From Islamic Courts to the Palace of Justice. Jane F. Collier is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Emerita, at Stanford University.

Summary:

Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the 'legal' as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who suggest that the subfield is dying and advocate a reintegration of legal anthropology into a renewed general anthropology. Chapters by anthropologists, sociologists, and law professors, using anthropological rather than legal methodologies, provide original analyses of particular legal developments. Some contributors adopt an interpretative approach, focusing on law as a system of meaning; others adopt a materialistic approach, analyzing the economic and political forces that historically shaped relations between social groups. Contributors include Said Armir Arjomand, Anton Blok, Bernard Cohn, George Collier, Carol Greenhouse, Sally Falk Moore, Laura Nader, June Nash, Lawrence Rosen, June Starr, and Joan Vincent.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Contributors

Introduction: Dialogues in Legal Anthropology / Starr, June / Collier, Jane F.

PART I. Resisting and Consolidating State-"Level "Legal Systems

1. The Symbolic Vocabulary of Public Executions / Blok, Anton

2. Law and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Norway / Aubert, Vilhelm

3. A Redistributive Model for Analyzing Government Mediation and Law in Family, Community, and Industry in a New England Industrial City / Nash, June

4. Constitution-Making in Islamic Iran: The Impact of Theocracy on the Legal Order of a Nation-State / Arjomand, Said Amir

PART II. Exporting and Extending Legal Orders

5. Law and the Colonial State in India / Cohn, Bernard S.

6. Contours of Change: Agrarian Law in Colonial Uganda, 1895-1962 / Vincent, Joan

7. Thinking about "Interests": Legislative Process in the European Community / Snyder, Francis G.

Part III. Receiving and Rejecting National Legal Processes

8. The Impact of Second Republic Labor Reforms in Spain / Collier, George A.

9. Entrepreneurs and the Law: Self-employed Surinamese in Amsterdam / Boissevain, Jeremy / Grotenbreg, Hanneke

10. Interpreting American Litigiousness / Greenhouse, Carol J.

Part IV. Constructing and Shaping Law

11. History and the Redefinition of Custom on Kilimanjaro / Moore, Sally Falk

12. Islamic "Case Law" and the Logic of Consequence / Rosen, Lawrence

13. The Crown, the Colonists, and the Course of Zapotec / Nader, Laura

14. The "Invention" of Early Legal Ideas: Sir Henry Maine and the Perpetual Tutelage of Women / Starr, June

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780801421136

0801421136

9781501723322

1501723324

OCLC:

1028940112