Law, anthropology, and the constitution of the social : making persons and things / edited by Alain Pottage and Martha Mundy.
2004
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Law, anthropology, and the constitution of the social : making persons and things / edited by Alain Pottage and Martha Mundy.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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1 online resource (ix, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Cambridge studies in law and society.
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Introduction: the fabrication of persons and things / Alain Pottage
Res Religiosae: on the categories of religion and commerce in Roman law / Yan Thomas
Scientific objects and legal objectivity / Bruno Latour
Legal fabrications and the case of 'cultural property' / Tim Murphy
Ownership or office? A debate in Islamic Hanafite jurisprudence over the nature of the military 'fief, ' from the Mamluks to the Ottomans / Martha Mundy
Gedik: a bundle of rights and obligations for Istanbul artisans and traders, 1750-1850 / Engin Deniz Akarli
Losing (out on) intellectual resources / Marilyn Strathern
Re-visualising attachment: an anthropological perspective on persons and property forms / Susanne Kuâșchler
Our original inheritance / Alain Pottage.
Res Religiosae: on the categories of religion and commerce in Roman law / Yan Thomas
Scientific objects and legal objectivity / Bruno Latour
Legal fabrications and the case of 'cultural property' / Tim Murphy
Ownership or office? A debate in Islamic Hanafite jurisprudence over the nature of the military 'fief, ' from the Mamluks to the Ottomans / Martha Mundy
Gedik: a bundle of rights and obligations for Istanbul artisans and traders, 1750-1850 / Engin Deniz Akarli
Losing (out on) intellectual resources / Marilyn Strathern
Re-visualising attachment: an anthropological perspective on persons and property forms / Susanne Kuâșchler
Our original inheritance / Alain Pottage.
Summary
This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores how persons and things - the central elements of the social - are fabricated by legal rituals and institutions. The contributors, legal and anthropological theorists alike, focus on a set of specific institutional and ethnographic contexts, and some unexpected and thought-provoking analogies emerge from this intellectual encounter between law and anthropology. For example, contemporary anxieties about the legal status of the biotechnological body seem to resonate with the questions addressed by ancient Roman law in its treatment of dead bodies. The analogy between copyright and the transmission of intangible designs in Melanesia suddenly makes western images of authorship seem quite unfamiliar. A comparison between law and laboratory science presents the production of legal artefacts in new light. These studies are of particular relevance at a time when law, faced with the inventiveness of biotechnology, finds it increasingly difficult to draw the line between persons and things.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
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9780511493751 ebook
9780521831789 (hardback)
9780521539456 (paperback)
9780521831789 (hardback)
9780521539456 (paperback)
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