Law, Anthropology, and the Constitution of the Social: Making Persons and Things (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
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Law, Anthropology, and the Constitution of the Social: Making Persons and Things (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

Law, Anthropology, and the Constitution of the Social: Making Persons and Things (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

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Alain Pottage (Contributor) Martha Mundy (Contributor)  

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This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores how persons and things - the central elements of the social - are fabricated by legal rituals and institutions. The contributors, legal and anthropological theorists alike, focus on a set of specific institutional and ethnographic contexts, and some unexpected and thought-provoking analogies emerge from this intellectual encounter between law and anthropology. For example, contemporary anxieties about the legal status of the biotechnological body seem to resonate with the questions addressed by ancient Roman law in its treatment of dead bodies. The analogy between copyright and the transmission of intangible designs in Melanesia suddenly makes western images of authorship seem quite unfamiliar. A comparison between law and laboratory science presents the production of legal artefacts in new light. These studies are of particular relevance at a time when law, faced with the inventiveness of biotechnology, finds it increasingly difficult to draw the line between persons and things. Worked examples or Exercises
Alain Pottage is reader in Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Martha Mundy is reader in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Contributor: Alain Pottage
  • Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780521539456
  • Number of Pages: 324
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x18mm
  • Packaged Weight: 480
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date: 2004-06-24
  • Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Alain Pottage is reader in Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Martha Mundy is reader in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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