Chapter 1 The Properties of Property * Franz von Benda - Beckmann Keebet von Benda - Beckmann Melanie G. Wiber The most serious single source of misunderstanding of the concepts of alien cultures is inadequate mastery of the concepts of ...
Although a legal forum, every effort is made to encourage children and families to participate in proceedings by dispensing ... Despite these efforts children and young people's participation at hearings has always been problematic.
Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume highlight its complex and contested nature.
As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as new empirically ...
Mobile people, mobile law: an introduction, Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths; Transborder citizenship: an outcome of legal pluralism within transnational social fields, Nina Glick Schiller; Transnational...
Offering an anthropological perspective, this volume explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within situations of legal ...
Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.
Offering an anthropological perspective, this volume explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within situations of legal ...
This volume examines dynamics of legal pluralism and explores the varied ways in which constellations of legal pluralism play out in social life.