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Legalism : rules and categories / Paul Dresch and Judith Scheele

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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1 online resource
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Dresch, Paul and Scheele, Judith, 1978-
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Rules, Culture, and Imagination in Sanskrit Jurisprudence / Donald R. Davis Jr. -- 2.Written Law as Words To Live By / Paul Dresch -- 3.Telling Stories About (Roman) Law: Rules and Concepts in Legal Discourse / Caroline Humfress -- 4.Rules, Proverbs, and Persuasion: Legalism and Rhetoric in Tibet / Fernanda Pirie -- 5.`Half-Free' Categories in the Early Middle Ages: Fine Status Distinctions Before Professional Lawyers / Alice Rio -- 6.In Praise of Disorder: Breaking the Rules in Northern Chad / Judith Scheele -- 7.A Polyphony of Rules and Categories: the Case of Early Rus / Simon Franklin -- 8.Categories and Consequences in Amazonia / Elizabeth Ewart -- 9.Legalism and the Care of the Self: Shariah Discourse in Contemporary Lebanon / Morgan Clarke.
Summary
Drawing on a wide range of historical and ethnographic examples, this volume elucidates the relationship between legal thinking and explicit rules and categories from a rigorously cross-cultural and comparative perspective.
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ISBN
9780191815454 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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