Introduction : the fabrication of persons and things / Alain Pottage -- Res religiosae : on the categories of religion and commerce in Roman law / Yan Thomas -- Scientific objects and legal objectivity / Bruno Latour -- Legal fabrications and the case of "cultural property" / Tim Murphy -- Ownership or office? : a debate in Islamic Hanafite jurisprudence over the nature of the military "fief", from the Mamluks to the Ottomans / Martha Mundy. and Gedik : a bundle of rights and obligations for Istanbul artisans and traders, 1750-1840 / Engin Deniz Akarlı -- Losing (out on) intellectual resources / Marilyn Strathern -- Re-visualising attachment : an anthropological perspective on persons and property forms / Susanne Küchler -- Our original inheritance / Alain Pottage.