Law as ritual: evoking an ideal order
In the modern state most laws enshrine practical social norms in a way that everyone can be aware of. Laws take a legalistic form, as generalizing rules and abstract categories. But turning to historical and ethnographic examples, we find legalistic rules that do not bear a neat resemblance to the d...
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HAU Society for Ethnographic Theory
2024
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