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Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology
Kaius Tuori
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Description for Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; LAZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
Legal primitivism was a complex phenomenon that combined the study of early European legal traditions with studies of the legal customs of indigenous peoples. Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism, and its connection to the colonial encounter. Through examples such as blood feuds, communalism, ordeals, ritual formalism and polygamy, this book traces the intellectual revolution of legal anthropology and demonstrates how this scholarship had a clear impact in legitimating the colonial experience. Detailing how legal realism drew on anthropology in order to help counter ... Read more
Legal primitivism was a complex phenomenon that combined the study of early European legal traditions with studies of the legal customs of indigenous peoples. Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism, and its connection to the colonial encounter. Through examples such as blood feuds, communalism, ordeals, ritual formalism and polygamy, this book traces the intellectual revolution of legal anthropology and demonstrates how this scholarship had a clear impact in legitimating the colonial experience. Detailing how legal realism drew on anthropology in order to help counter ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138685949
SKU
V9781138685949
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About Kaius Tuori
Kaius Tuori is Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include legal history, Roman law, legal anthropology, and classical archaeology.
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