Autor: Franz von Benda-Beckmann

As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property …

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 proce …

Die Vorstellung, modernes Recht sei eng an die politische Organisationsform des Staates gebunden, verliert in jüngster Zeit immer mehr an Plausibilität: Transnationale Unternehmen schaffen sich in vi …

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Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society focuses on law and its location, exploring how spaces are constructed on the terrestrial and marine surface of the earth with legal me …

Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society focuses on law and its location, exploring how spaces are constructed on the terrestrial and marine surface of the earth with legal me …

Offering an anthropological perspective, this volume explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social signif …

Offering an anthropological perspective, this volume explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social signif …

Demonstrating how users of law, who often operate in multi-sited situations, are forced to deal with increasingly complex legal circumstances, this volume focuses on political and social processes th …

Demonstrating how users of law, who often operate in multi-sited situations, are forced to deal with increasingly complex legal circumstances, this volume focuses on political and social processes th …

Learn the laws of inheritance and teach them to the people; for they are one half of useful knowledge. t*1ohannned (Fyzee 1955: 329) When the prophet created this aphorism he had in mind the rules of …

Wie kann das Recht 'anderer’ Gesellschaften, das einem Europäer eher fremd ist, verstanden werden? Um es überhaupt verstehen zu können, muss man es in die gedanklichen Schemata, Begriffe und Kategori …

First Published in 1999. This book provides a critical analysis of the widespread assumption that the formalisation and standardisation of property rights through state legislation has a positive imp …

First Published in 1999. This book provides a critical analysis of the widespread assumption that the formalisation and standardisation of property rights through state legislation has a positive imp …