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2014

Legal anthropology

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Ethnography In The Realm Of The Pragmatic: Studying Pragmatism In Law And Politics, Annelise Riles Dec 2014

Ethnography In The Realm Of The Pragmatic: Studying Pragmatism In Law And Politics, Annelise Riles

Annelise Riles

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Infinity Within The Brackets, Annelise Riles Dec 2014

Infinity Within The Brackets, Annelise Riles

Annelise Riles

The ethnographic subjects of this article are UN-sponsored international conferences and their legal documents. Drawing upon fieldwork among Fiji delegates at these conferences, in this article I demonstrate the centrality of matters of form, as distinct from questions of “meaning,” in the negotiation of international agreements. A parallel usage of documents and of mats among Fijian negotiators provides a heuristic device for exploring questions of pattern and scale in the aesthetics of negotiation.

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An Ethnography Of Abstractions?, Annelise Riles Dec 2014

An Ethnography Of Abstractions?, Annelise Riles

Annelise Riles

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Change: A Constant Variably Defined - Law And Anthropology Perspectives On Historical Changes To The Rule Of Law, Dylan O. Malagrino Dec 2013

Change: A Constant Variably Defined - Law And Anthropology Perspectives On Historical Changes To The Rule Of Law, Dylan O. Malagrino

Dylan Malagrinò

History has shown many periods of legal change dramatically transforming law in society. Although anthropology and law might have a wide area of interdisciplinarity, these two disciplines’ treatments of legal change are still quite different. For example, lawyers read legal change as new concepts from within a legal tradition continually evolving over time, and anthropologists, analyzing the social relations between persons and abstract personæ, see legal change as a significant break to a social history. In what follows here, I have examined historical
instances of significant legal change in societies very different from the presumptions of our own modern-state, capitalist-commercial …

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