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Author:   Michael Freeman (Professor of English Law, University College London) ,  David Napier (Professor of Anthropology, University College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   v. 12
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.026kg
ISBN:  

9780199580910

ISBN 10:   019958091
Pages:   584
Publication Date:   19 November 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Michael Freeman and David Napier: General Editors' Preface Michael Freeman and David Napier: Introduction: Law and Anthropology 1: Franz von Benda-Beckmann: Riding or Killing the Centaur? Reflections on the Identities of Legal Anthropology 2: Carol J Greenhouse: Law and Anthropology: Old Relations, New Relativities 3: Christoph Eberhard: Law and Anthropology in a ""Glocal "" World: The Challenge of Dialogue 4: Annelise Riles: Cultural Conflicts 5: Rebecca R French: Ethnography in Ordinary Case Law 6: Fernanda Pirie: From Tribal Tibet: The Significance of the Legal Form 7: Anne Griffiths: Anthropological Perspectives on Legal Pluralism and Governance in a Transnational World 8: Elizabeth Cassell: Anthropologists In The Canadian Courts 9: Erika J Techera: Legal Foundations for the Recognition of Customary Law in the Post-Colonial South Pacific 10: Maria Sapignoli: Indigeneity and the Expert: Negotiating Identity in the Case of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve 11: Allen Abramson: The Lie of the Land: Suturing the Jural and the Ritual in Fiji, Western Pacific 12: Caroline Plançon: The Role of Social Representations in the Production and Application of the Law: A Case Study of Property Law in Senegal 13: Claudia Ituarte-Lima: Categories of Intellectual Property and Biodiversity in Western Inspired Legal Cultures 14: Steven Wheatley: Indigenous Peoples and the Right of Political Autonomy in an Age of Global Legal Pluralism 15: Sally Engle Merry: Relating to the Subjects of Human Rights: The Culture of Agency in Human Rights Discourse 16: Samia Bano: Multicultural Interlegality? Negotiating Family Law in the Context of Muslim Legal Pluralism in the UK 17: Richard Abel: Professional Integrity 18: Marie-Andrée Jacob: Discipline Exchange on Swaps 19: Robin Mackenzie: Bestia Sacer and Agamben's Anthropological Machine: Biomedical/Legal Taxonomies as Somatechnologies of Human and Nonhuman Animals' Ethico-Political Relations 20: Françoise Lauwaert: Framing The Family in Late Imperial China: An Anthropological Glance at Some Family Cases in the Conspectus of Penal Cases (Xing'an huilan) 21: Malcolm Voyce: The Rules of Buddhist Monks: Issues of Property and Pollution"

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Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law at University College London and is the series editor for Current Legal Issues. David Napier is Professor of Anthropology at University College London.

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