Inside and Outside the Law

Herausgeber: Harris, Olivia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Law is a discourse of absolutes, and yet it is beset by ambiguities. Legality is inevitably identified with morality, and yet there is in all legal systems a zone where the legal and the non-legal become hard to distinguish, and where it is debatable how far the moral and social standing of particular groups or individuals can be equated with their legal status. Anthropology is typically concerned with the frontiers of legality, and with groups defined by the law as marginal. Inside and Outside the Law reflects on the ambiguities of law's authority, drawing on comparative case-studies of ethnic groups within different modern states, of groups defined as marginal through their sexual behaviour, and on analyses of the ambiguities at the heart of state authority itself. Inside and Outside the Law will be of interest to political scientists and legal theorists, as well as anthropologists and sociologists concerned with popular conceptions of the state and its laws.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780415129282
• ISBN-10: 0415129281
• Artikelnr.: 21555747

Autorenporträt

Olivia Harris is a Lecturer at Goldsmith's College, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction,Olivia Harris 1.THE STATE AND ITS ATTRIBUTES. 2. The
Particular Context of Universal Claims: Human Rights Talk and
Anthropological Ambivalence,Marie-Benedicte Dembour.3. Vigilantism in
Comparative Perspective,Ray Abrahams. 4. Trading in Ambiguity: Law, Rights
and Realities in the Distribution of Land in Northern Mozambique,Sue
Fleming.SEXUALITY AND LEGITIMACY. 5. The Law and the Market: Rhetorics of
Exclusion and Inclusion Among London Prostitutes,Sophie Day.6.In Praise of
Bastardy: The Uncertainties of Mestizo Identity,Therese Bouysse-Cassagne.
7. Living Their Lives in Courts: The Hegemonic Force of the Tswana Kgnotla
in a Colonial Context, Ornulf Gulbrandsen.8. A Public Flogging in
South-western Iran: Juridical Rule, Abolition of Legality and Local
Resistance,Manuchehr Sanadjian.9. Which Centre, Whose Margin? Notes Towards
an Archaeology of US Supreme Court Case 91-948 1993 (Church of the Lukumi
vs City of Hialeah, Southern Florida)