Kaius Tuori

Lawyers and Savages

Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Lawyers and Savages explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism, and its connection to the colonial encounter. Nineteenth century legal anthropology - and with it the idea of "primitive law" - was born out of the universalization of the Western legal tradition, and its understanding of history as a civilizing process. And this book demonstrates how this scholarship had a clear impact in legitimating the colonial experience. Through examples such as blood feuds, communalism, ordeals, ritual formalismand polygamy, the book traces the intellectual revolution of legal anthropology. In doing so, however - and beyond the conventional story from Maine to Malinowski - it introduces an American story: as the book details how legal realism drew on anthropology in order to help counter the hypothetical constructs of legal formalism. Finally, this book shows how, despite the explicit rejection, the central themes of primitive law continue to influence current ideas - about indigenous legal systems, but also ofthe place and role of law in development"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781138685949
• ISBN-10: 1138685941
• Artikelnr.: 45052121

Autorenporträt

Kaius Tuori is Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include legal history, Roman law, legal anthropology, and classical archaeology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Blood: Law as Culture
Chapter 3. Sex: The Fascination of Primitive Law
Chapter 4. Magic: The Realist Revolution
Chapter 5. The Banality of Pluralism
Chapter 6. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index