The Law Is a White Dog : How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dayan, Colin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Law > Social aspects > United States.
Civil rights > United States.
Torture > United States.
Slavery > Law and legislation > United States.
Persons (Law) > United States.
Torture.
Slavery > Law and legislation.
Persons (Law)
Law > Social aspects.
Civil rights.
Law.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Droits de l'homme > États-Unis.
Personnes (Droit) > États-Unis.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Holy dogs, Hecuba's bark
  • Civil death
  • Punishing the residue
  • Taxonomies
  • A legal ethnography
  • Who gets to be wanton?
  • Skin of the dog.

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