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Inside and Outside the Law

By Olivia Harris

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Inside and Outside the Law

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Law is a discourse of absolutes, and yet it is beset by ambiguities. Legality is inevitably identified with morality, and yet there is in all legal systems a zone where the legal and the non-legal become hard to distinguish, and where it is debatable how far the moral and social standing of particular groups or individuals can be equated with their legal status. Anthropology is typically concerned with the frontiers of legality, and with groups defined by the law as marginal. Inside and Outside the Law reflects on the ambiguities of law's authority, drawing on comparative case-studies of ethnic groups within different modern states, of groups defined as marginal through their sexual behaviour, and on analyses of the ambiguities at the heart of state authority itself. Inside and Outside the Law will be of interest to political scientists and legal theorists, as well as anthropologists and sociologists concerned with popular conceptions of the state and its laws.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
232
Release Date:
1997-02-01
Publication Date:
1996-11-14
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0415129281
ISBN13:
9780415129282
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
464 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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