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