...essential reading for scholars interested in understanding sociopolitical change under globalization in the early 21st century...I recommend this volume] for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in legal anthropology, political anthropology, the anthropology of the state, and globalization. Several chapters could also be creatively woven into courses on the anthropology of religion.PoLAR
...there is much common ground between the contributors, and the variety of contexts and situations are valuable for showing how the unifying themes... work out on different...
...essential reading for scholars interested in understanding sociopolitical change under globalization in the early 21st century...I recommend th...
How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured through social processes that frame both its continuity and transformation over time. The volume highlights how power is deployed under conditions of legal pluralism, exploring its effects on livelihoods and on social institutions, including the state. Such an approach not only demonstrates how the state, through its various development programs and organizational structures, attempts to control territory and...
How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law...
