The law is a white dog : how legal rituals make and unmake persons /
Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantnamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state--all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining...
| Основен автор: | Dayan, Colin. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2011.
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Съдържание:
- Holy dogs, Hecuba's bark
- Civil death
- Punishing the residue
- Taxonomies
- A legal ethnography
- Who gets to be wanton?
- Skin of the dog.