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 …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …