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History and Power in the Study of Law
Contributor(s): Starr, June (Editor), Collier, Jane F. (Editor)
ISBN: 0801421136     ISBN-13: 9780801421136
Publisher: Cornell University Press
OUR PRICE:   $56.38  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 1989
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Law | Legal History
Dewey: 340.115
LCCN: 88-30258
Series: Food Systems and Agrarian Change
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.63 lbs) 352 pages
 
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Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the 'legal' as a separate field of study? To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who suggest that the subfield is dying and advocate a reintegration of legal anthropology into a renewed general anthropology. Chapters by anthropologists, sociologists, and law professors, using anthropological rather than legal methodologies, provide original analyses of particular legal developments. Some contributors adopt an interpretative approach, focusing on law as a system of meaning; others adopt a materialistic approach, analyzing the economic and political forces that historically shaped relations between social groups. Contributors include Said Armir Arjomand, Anton Blok, Bernard Cohn, George Collier, Carol Greenhouse, Sally Falk Moore, Laura Nader, June Nash, Lawrence Rosen, June Starr, and Joan Vincent.


Contributor Bio(s): Starr, June: - The late June Starr was Professor of Law at Indiana University. She was the author of Dispute and Settlement in Rural Turkey: An Ethnography of Law and Law as Metaphor: From Islamic Courts to the Palace of Justice.Collier, Jane F.: - Jane F. Collier is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Emerita, at Stanford University.