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Pottage Alain

Law, anthropology and the constitutuion of the social : Making persons and things - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2004 - 310p vii

Contents:
Notes on contributors viii;
1. Introduction: the fabrication of persons and things Alain Pottage 1;
2. Res Religiosae: on the categories of religion and commerce in Roman law Yan Thomas 40;
3. Scientific objects and legal objectivity Bruno Latour 73;
4. Legal fabrications and the case of 'cultural property' Tim Murphy 115;
5. Ownership or office? A debate in Islamic Hanafite jurisprudence over the nature of the military 'fief', from the Mamluks to the Ottomans Martha Mundy 142;
6. Gedik: a bundle of rights and obligations for Istanbul artisans and traders, 1750–1840 Engin Deniz Akarli 166;
7. Losing (out on) intellectual resources Marilyn Strathern 201
8. Re-visualising attachment: an anthropological perspective on persons and property forms Susanne Küchler 234
9. Our original inheritance Alain Pottage 249;
Bibliography 286;
Index 302.


ISBN: 9780521539456 0521539455

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Law & Anthropology2. Persons - Law3. Things - Law

Dewey Class. No.: 340.115000 / POT