LawAnthropologyandtheConstitutionoftheSocial
- 作者
- 出版社 CambridgeUniversityPress
- 出版时间 2004年6月
- ISBN 9780521539456
- 定价 664.40
内容简介
Thiscollectionofinterdisciplinaryessaysexploreshowpersonsandthings-thecentralelementsofthesocial-arefabricatedbylegalritualsandinstitutions.Thecontributors,legalandanthropologicaltheoristsalike,focusonasetofspecificinstitutionalandethnographiccontexts,andsomeunexpectedandthought-provokinganalogiesemergefromthisintellectualencounterbetweenlawandanthropology.Forexample,contemporaryanxietiesaboutthelegalstatusofthebiotechnologicalbodyseemtoresonatewiththequestionsaddressedbyancientRomanlawinitstreatmentofdeadbodies.TheanalogybetweencopyrightandthetransmissionofintangibledesignsinMelanesiasuddenlymakeswesternimagesofauthorshipseemquiteunfamiliar.Acomparisonbetweenlawandlaboratorysciencepresentstheproductionoflegalartefactsinnewlight.Thesestudiesareofparticularrelevanceatatimewhenlaw,facedwiththeinventivenessofbiotechnology,findsitincreasinglydifficulttodrawthelinebetweenpersonsandthings.
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