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The anthropology of law

Fernanda Pirie (Author)
"Questions about the nature of law, its relationship with custom, and the form of legal rules, categories and claims, are placed at the centre of this challenging, yet accessible, introduction. Anthropology of law is presented as a distinctive subject within the broader field of legal anthropology, suggesting new avenues of inquiry for the anthropologist, while also bringing empirical studies within the ambit of legal scholarship

Print Book, English, 2013
Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2013