"In this volume leading historians and anthropologists with an interest in law gather to analyse the nature and meaning of law in diverse societies. They start from the concept of legalism, taken from the anthropologist Lloyd Fallers, whose 1960s work on Africa engaged, unusually, with jurispru...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Dresch, Paul, Skoda, Hannah, 1981-
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Schlagworte:	Law and anthropology. Law > Philosophy > History. Law > Philosophy > Cross-cultural studies. Droit et anthropologie. LAW > Essays. LAW > General Practice. LAW > Jurisprudence. LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism. LAW > Practical Guides. LAW > Reference. Law > Philosophy Law and anthropology Electronic books. Cross-cultural studies History
Online-Zugang:	DE-862 DE-863
Zusammenfassung:	"In this volume leading historians and anthropologists with an interest in law gather to analyse the nature and meaning of law in diverse societies. They start from the concept of legalism, taken from the anthropologist Lloyd Fallers, whose 1960s work on Africa engaged, unusually, with jurisprudence. The concept highlights appeal to categories and rules. The degree to which legalism in this sense informs people's lives varies within and between societies, and over time, but it can colour equally both 'simple' and 'complex' law. Breaking with recent emphases on 'practice', nine specialist contributors explore, in a wide-ranging set of cases, the place of legalism in the workings of social life. The essays make obvious the need to question our parochial common sense where ideals of moral order at other times and places differ from those of modern North Atlantic governance. State-centred law, for instance, is far from a 'central case'. Legalism may be 'aspirational', connecting people to wider visions of morality; duty may be as prominent a theme as rights; and rulers from thirteenth-century England to sixteenth-century Burma appropriate, as much they impose, a vision of justice as consistency. The use of explicit categories and rules does not reduce to simple questions of power. The cases explored range from ancient Asia Minor to classical India, and from medieval England and France to Saharan oases and southern Arabia. In each case they assume no knowledge of the society or legal system discussed. The volume will appeal not only to historians and anthropologists with an interest in law, but to students of law engaged in legal theory, for the light it sheds on the strengths and limitations of abstract legal philosophy."--Publisher's description
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xii, 353 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-348) and index.
ISBN:	9780191641466 0191641464 9780191752278 0191752274 9781283706001 1283706008 9780191744686 0191744689