The law is a white dog: how legal rituals make and unmake persons
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1. Verfasser: Dayan, Colin (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press ©2011
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Holy dogs, Hecuba's bark -- Civil death -- Punishing the residue -- Taxonomies -- A legal ethnography -- Who gets to be wanton? -- Skin of the dog
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. Examining such troubling cases, The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities, both natural and supernatural, including gho
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 343 pages)
ISBN:0691070911
1400838592
9781400838592

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