Anthropology of law clarendon law amazonde pirie fernanda fremdsprachige bucher wahlen sie ihre cookie einstellungen wir verwenden cookies und ahnliche tools um ihr einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern um unsere dienste anzubieten um zu verstehen wie die kunden unsere dienste nutzen damit wir verbesserungen vornehmen konnen und um werbung anzuzeigen. Fernanda piries the anthropology of law is an exciting introduction to this ethnographically informed field of inquiry although a number of texts on anthropology and law have been published in recent years piries commentary is imbued with her own insightful contributions that help to more clearly define the field and at the same time make it accessible to a wide range of scholars across . Engages comparatively with cross disciplinary scholarship to develop the anthropology of law an invaluable resource for generations of students and teachers of law the clarendon law series offers concise accessible overviews of major fields of law and legal thought stimulating students to think more broadly and deeply about the law. The anthropology of law considers contemporary debates on human rights international laws and new forms of property alongside ethnographic studies of order and conflict resolution it also delves into the rich corpus of texts and codes studied by legal historians classicists and orientalists the great legal systems of ancient china india and the islamic world unjustly neglected by anthropologists are examined alongside forms of law created on their peripheries ancient codes