The power of law in a transnational world : anthropological enquiries /

How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured through social processes that frame both its continuity and transformation over time. The volume highlights how power is...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Benda-Beckmann, Franz von, Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von, Griffiths, Anne M. O.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Subjects:
Legal polycentricity > Congresses.
Law and globalization > Congresses.
Law and anthropology > Congresses.
Pluralisme juridique > Congrès.
Droit et mondialisation > Congrès.
Droit et anthropologie > Congrès.
LAW > Essays.
LAW > General Practice.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW > Practical Guides.
LAW > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Law and anthropology
Law and globalization
Legal polycentricity
Recht
Globalisierung
Anthropologie
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The military order of 13 November 2001 : an ethnographic reading / Carol J. Greenhouse
  • Law and the frontiers of illegalities / Laura Nader
  • Selective scrutiny : supranational engagement with minority protection and rights in Europe / Jane K. Cowan
  • The globalization of fatwas amidst the terror wars against pluralism / Upendra Baxi
  • Human rights, cultural relativism and legal pluralism : towards a two-dimensional debate / Franz von Benda-Beckmann
  • Learning communities and legal spaces : community-based fisheries management in a globalizing world / Melanie G. Wiber and John F. Kearney
  • Project law : a power instrument of development agencies : a case study from Burundi / Markus Weilenmann
  • Half-told truths and partial silence : managing communication in Scottish children's hearings / Anne Griffiths and Randy F. Kandel
  • Keeping the stream of justice clear and pure : the Buddhicization of Bhutanese law / Richard W. Whitecross
  • Balancing Islam, Adat and the state : comparing Islamic and civil courts in Indonesia / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
  • Kings, monks, bureaucrats and the police : Tibetan responses to law and authority / Fernanda Pirie.

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