The power of law in a transnational world : anthropological enquiries / edited by Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths.
2009
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Title
The power of law in a transnational world : anthropological enquiries / edited by Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths.
Published
New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Call Number
K236 .P683 2009
ISBN
9781845454234 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1845454235 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1845454235 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Description
vi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)230182614
Note
Based on a series of conferences organized by the School of Law, Edinburgh University, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Salle, Germany, on the development of the anthropology of law.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Power of Law / Franz von Benda-Beckmann Keebet von Benda-Beckmann Anne Griffiths
1
Power of Law as Discourse: Claims to Legitimacy and Higher Morality
1
The Military Order of 13 November 2001: An Ethnographic Reading / Carol J. Greenhouse
33
2
Law and the Frontiers of Illegalities / Laura Nader
54
3
Selective Scrutiny: Supranational Engagement with Minority Protection and Rights in Europe / Jane K. Cowan
74
4
The Globalization of Fatwas amidst the Terror Wars against Pluralism / Upendra Baxi
96
5
Human Rights, Cultural Relativism and Legal Pluralism: Towards a Two-dimensional Debate / Frans von Benda-Beckmann
115
At The Intersection of Legalities
6
Learning Communities and Legal Spaces: Community-based Fisheries Management in a Globalizing World / Melanie G. Wiber John F. Kearney
137
7
Project Law - a Power Instrument of Development Agencies: A Case Study from Burundi / Markus Weilenmann
156
8
Half-Told Truths and Partial Silence: Managing Communication in Scottish Children's Hearings / Anne Griffiths Randy F. Kandel
176
Religion as a Resource in Legal Pluralism
9
Keeping the Stream of Justice Clear and Pure: The Buddhicization of Bhutanese Law / Richard W. Whitecross
199
10
Balancing Islam, Adat and the State: Comparing Islamic and Civil Courts in Indonesia / Keebel von Benda-Beckmann
216
11
Kings, Monks, Bureaucrats and the Police: Tibetan Responses to Law and Authority / Fernanda Pirie
236
Notes on Contributors
254
Index
259