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5. Law and the Colonial State in India
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Bernard S. Cohn
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Contributors ix
- Introduction: Dialogues in Legal Anthropology 1
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PART I. Resisting and Consolidating State-"Level "Legal Systems
- 1. The Symbolic Vocabulary of Public Executions 31
- 2. Law and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Norway 55
- 3. A Redistributive Model for Analyzing Government Mediation and Law in Family, Community, and Industry in a New England Industrial City 81
- 4. Constitution-Making in Islamic Iran: The Impact of Theocracy on the Legal Order of a Nation-State 113
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PART II. Exporting and Extending Legal Orders
- 5. Law and the Colonial State in India 131
- 6. Contours of Change: Agrarian Law in Colonial Uganda, 1895–1962 153
- 7. Thinking about “Interests”: Legislative Process in the European Community 168
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Part III. Receiving and Rejecting National Legal Processes
- 8. The Impact of Second Republic Labor Reforms in Spain 201
- 9. Entrepreneurs and the Law: Self-employed Surinamese in Amsterdam 223
- 10. Interpreting American Litigiousness 252
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Part IV. Constructing and Shaping Law
- 11. History and the Redefinition of Custom on Kilimanjaro 277
- 12. Islamic “Case Law” and the Logic of Consequence 302
- 13. The Crown, the Colonists, and the Course of Zapotec 320
- 14. The “Invention” of Early Legal Ideas: Sir Henry Maine and the Perpetual Tutelage of Women 345
- Index 369
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Contributors ix
- Introduction: Dialogues in Legal Anthropology 1
-
PART I. Resisting and Consolidating State-"Level "Legal Systems
- 1. The Symbolic Vocabulary of Public Executions 31
- 2. Law and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Norway 55
- 3. A Redistributive Model for Analyzing Government Mediation and Law in Family, Community, and Industry in a New England Industrial City 81
- 4. Constitution-Making in Islamic Iran: The Impact of Theocracy on the Legal Order of a Nation-State 113
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PART II. Exporting and Extending Legal Orders
- 5. Law and the Colonial State in India 131
- 6. Contours of Change: Agrarian Law in Colonial Uganda, 1895–1962 153
- 7. Thinking about “Interests”: Legislative Process in the European Community 168
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Part III. Receiving and Rejecting National Legal Processes
- 8. The Impact of Second Republic Labor Reforms in Spain 201
- 9. Entrepreneurs and the Law: Self-employed Surinamese in Amsterdam 223
- 10. Interpreting American Litigiousness 252
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Part IV. Constructing and Shaping Law
- 11. History and the Redefinition of Custom on Kilimanjaro 277
- 12. Islamic “Case Law” and the Logic of Consequence 302
- 13. The Crown, the Colonists, and the Course of Zapotec 320
- 14. The “Invention” of Early Legal Ideas: Sir Henry Maine and the Perpetual Tutelage of Women 345
- Index 369