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Domestic government : kinship, community and polity in North Yemen
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ISBN: 1850439184 Year: 1995 Volume: *1 Publisher: London Tauris

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Law and anthropology
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ISBN: 0754620824 9780754620822 Year: 2002 Publisher: Aldershot: Ashgate,

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Law, anthropology, and the constitution of the social
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ISBN: 0521539455 0521831784 1107148596 0511214308 0511331479 0511493754 1280540184 0511216092 0511210728 0511212496 9780521831789 9780521539456 9780511212499 9780511214301 9780511210723 9780511216091 9780511493751 9786610540181 6610540187 9781107148598 9781280540189 9780511331473 Year: 2004 Volume: *3 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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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.

The transformation of nomadic society in the Arab East
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ISBN: 0521770572 9780521770576 Year: 2000 Volume: 58 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Martha Mundy and Basim Musallam bring together an international team of contributors consisting of archaeologists, geographers, historians, anthropologists and agronomists in a penetrating interdisciplinary account of the transformation of nomadic society. The chapters provide an integrated analysis of the changing relations of ecology, economic and socio-political organisation in the steppes of the central Middle East, documenting the longue durée of history alongside the more rapid transformations of the twentieth century. A series of maps and figures illustrates the narrative while a bibliographic essay analyses the existing literature. This is an accessible and interactive book which provides a comprehensive overview of a fascinating and complex society. It will attract readers from a variety of disciplines, including those interested in contemporary environmental and development isues.

Governing property, making the modern state : law, administration and production in Ottoman Syria
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ISBN: 9781845112912 Year: 2007 Publisher: London I.B. Tauris


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Forms and institutions of justice : Legal actions in Ottoman contexts
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ISBN: 2362450724 Year: 2018 Publisher: Istanbul : Institut français d’études anatoliennes,

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The articles forming the present volume aim to contribute to the rich and evolving historiography on the multiplicity of the actors and the institutions of Ottoman legal system. As the title of the volume suggests, “forms” and “institutions” of justice are a common thread in the contributions. Each article concentrates on a specific historical moment and context in order to chart the articulation of different forms of Ottoman justice. This volume has emerged as an outcome of a workshop organized at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA) on January 6-7, 2012, in Istanbul. At the outset we grappled with the following question: What were the multiple actors and normative sources that enabled the historians to talk about ‘justice’ across different cultural and historical geographies under the rule of the Ottoman dynasty? Our concern was in part to question the unitary conception of an ‘Ottoman Justice’ and the legal and procedural dominance accorded the kadi in Ottoman historiography.

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