Legalism : anthropology and history /

"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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Dresch, Paul, Skoda, Hannah, 1981-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	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
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Table of Contents:

Legalism, Anthropology, and History: A View from Part of Anthropology / Paul Dresch
A Historian's Perspective on the Present Volume / Hannah Skoda
Ideas of Law in Hellenistic and Roman Legal Practice / Georgy Kantor
Centres of Law: Duties, Rights, and Pluralism in Medieval India / Donald Davis Jr
The Evolution of Sanctuary in Medieval England / T.B. Lambert
Aspects of Non-State Law: Early Yemen and Perpetual Peace / Paul Dresch
The English Medieval Common Law (to c. 1307) as a System of National Institutions and Legal Rules: Creation and Functioning / Paul Brand
Rightful Measures: Irrigation, Land, and the Shari'ah in the Algerian Touat / Judith Scheele
Lord Kyaw Thu's Precedent: a Sixteenth-Century Burmese Law-Report / Andrew Huxley
Custom, Combat, and the Study of Laws: Montesquieu Revisited / Malcolm Vale
Legal Performances in Late Medieval France / Hannah Skoda.