Law and Anthropology: A Reader - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1405102284 ISBN 13: 9781405102285

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

Riassunto

This Reader offers a remarkable overview of the field of law and anthropology: its development, present, and potential future courses.

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• Edited by a preeminent anthropologist, lawyer, and pioneer in the study of law & anthropology.
  
• Brings together classics of political thought and key contemporary work from social scientists and lawyers.
  
• Explores historical issues and more contemporary ones such as illegal migration, human rights, gender discrimination, political corruption, and reparations for injustices committed by previous regimes.

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Recensione:

Sally Falk Moore s insightful commentary pulls together a delightful combination of the classics and the cutting edge in legal anthropology. This book is both evidence of and an important event in the story of the re–emergence of legal anthropology as a powerful source of critical inquiry both in law and in anthropology. Bryant Garth, Director, American Bar Foundation

Law and Anthropology: A Reader has been assembled with consummate intelligence and a magisterial knowledge of legal anthropology by one of its most respected scholars, Sally Falk Moore. It brings together some of the most influential, most challenging, most insightful texts in a field that, for good historical reasons, is undergoing a welcome, exciting renaissance. A must–read collection of writings. John Comaroff, University of Chicago

L'autore:

Sally Falk Moore is Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, at Harvard University. She is winner of the 2005 Harry Kalven Prize, for empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society.

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• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1405102284
• ISBN 13: 9781405102285
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Redattore: Moore Sally F.