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Corporations In The Flow Of Culture, Greg Urban
Corporations In The Flow Of Culture, Greg Urban
Seattle University Law Review
As an anthropologist, coming out of three decades of research among indigenous Brazilian populations, I naturally saw modern for-profit business corporations as tribes—the collective bearers of adaptive cultural know-how. They appeared to me to be the entities housing the culture needed to produce commodities, to trade commodities on the open market, or both. I was also, of course, aware of the legal concept of the corporation as fictive person capable of owning property and having standing in court cases, which I thought of as akin to the anthropological corporation insofar as both recognized the group as social actor. However, it …
Notes On The Difficulty Of Studying The Corporation, Marina Welker
Notes On The Difficulty Of Studying The Corporation, Marina Welker
Seattle University Law Review
In the award-winning documentary The Corporation, public intellectuals and activists characterize corporations as “externalizing machines,” “doom machines,” “persons with no moral conscience,” and “monsters trying to devour as much profit as possible at anyone’s expense.” In other footage, people on the street personify corporations: “General Electric: a kind old man with lots of stories;” “Nike: young, energetic;” “Microsoft: aggressive;” “McDonald’s: young, outgoing, enthusiastic;” “Monsanto: immaculately dressed;” “Disney: goofy;” “The Body Shop: deceptive.” The documentary, like screenwriter and legal scholar Joel Bakan’s book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, imparts dissonant messages about corporations. On the one hand, …
Judicial Application Of Village Rules(村规民约的司法适用), Meng Hou
Judicial Application Of Village Rules(村规民约的司法适用), Meng Hou
Hou Meng
No abstract provided.
Legal And Anthropological Research: 30 Years Of Experience In China（法律和人类学研究：中国经验30年）, Meng Hou
Legal And Anthropological Research: 30 Years Of Experience In China（法律和人类学研究：中国经验30年）, Meng Hou
Hou Meng
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The Ethnographic Village Law In The Transformation Of The Social(转型社会的乡村法律民族志：方法与对象), Meng Hou
The Ethnographic Village Law In The Transformation Of The Social(转型社会的乡村法律民族志：方法与对象), Meng Hou
Hou Meng
No abstract provided.