The Power of Law in a Transnational World
Anthropological Enquiries
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 processes that frame both its continuity and transformation over time. The volume highlights how power is deployed under conditions of legal pluralism, exploring its effects on livelihoods and on social institutions, including the state. Such an approach not only demonstrates how the state, through its various development programs and organizational structures, attempts to control territory and people, but also relates the mechanisms of state control…
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Weitere Autoren: Benda-Beckmann, Franz von (Hrsg.) / Griffiths, Anne (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84545-423-4
- EAN: 9781845454234
- Produktnummer: 19827922
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 506 g
- Gewicht: 506
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann is head of the Project Group Legal Pluralism at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. She also is an honorary professor in Leipzig and Halle. Her research in Indonesia and the Netherlands focuses on legal pluralism, social security, governance and on the role of religion in disputing processes.
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