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Ethnography In The Realm Of The Pragmatic: Studying Pragmatism In Law And Politics, Annelise Riles
Ethnography In The Realm Of The Pragmatic: Studying Pragmatism In Law And Politics, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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An Ethnography Of Abstractions?, Annelise Riles
An Ethnography Of Abstractions?, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Infinity Within The Brackets, Annelise Riles
Infinity Within The Brackets, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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.
Representing In-Between: Law, Anthropology, And The Rhetoric Of Interdisciplinarity, Annelise Riles
Representing In-Between: Law, Anthropology, And The Rhetoric Of Interdisciplinarity, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This article considers how lawyers and nonlawyers discuss the contribution of interdisciplinary scholarship to the law as a means of rethinking the relationship between these differences. The article first examines the arguments of the nineteenth-century lawyer Henry Maine and of the twentieth-century anthropologist Edmund Leach on the subject, and notes the difference between Maine's emphasis on "movement" from one theoretical discovery to another and Leach's emphasis on creating relationships between disciplines by exploiting a "space in between" the two. Then, turning to contemporary scholarship in legal anthropology, "Law and Society," and the sociology of law, the article critiques the rigid …