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

Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state--all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examini...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dayan, Colin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Holy dogs, Hecuba's bark
  • Civil death
  • Punishing the residue
  • Taxonomies
  • A legal ethnography
  • Who gets to be wanton?
  • Skin of the dog.