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Law, Culture, and Ritual : Disputing Systems in Cross-Cultural Context.
Disputing systems are products of the societies in which they operate-they originate and mutate in response to disputes that are particular to specific social, cultural, and political contexts. Disputing procedures, therefore, are an important medium through which fundamental beliefs, values, and sy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Disputing systems are products of the societies in which they operate-they originate and mutate in response to disputes that are particular to specific social, cultural, and political contexts. Disputing procedures, therefore, are an important medium through which fundamental beliefs, values, and symbols of culture are communicated, preserved, and sometimes altered. In Law, Culture, and Ritual, Oscar G. Chase uses interdisciplinary scholarship to examine the cultural contexts of legal institutions, and presents several case studies to demonstrate that the processes used for resolving disputes. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814745175 0814745172 |