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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 people, but also relates the mechanisms of state control to other legal modes of control and regulation at both local and supranational levels.
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Editors Keebet and Franz von Benda-Beckmann (head of the Project Group Legal Pluralism, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) have teamed with Griffiths (anthropology of law, U. of Edinburgh School of Law, UK) to present these essays on how the law is "constituted and reconfigured through social processes" in order to control people and territories. Written for students and scholars who are interested in the intersection of law and anthropology, this volume discusses such topics as legal claims to legitimacy and higher moral purpose, human rights and legal pluralism and religion as a resource in legal pluralism. This volume is designed as a follow-up to Mobile People, Mobile Law" Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World, which was culled from the same series of conferences held at the U. of Edinburgh. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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