Legalism: Anthropology and History

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Abstract:: Law and law-like institutions are visible in human societies very distant from each other in time and space. When it comes to observing and analysing such social constructs historians, anthropologists, and lawyers run into notorious difficulties in how to conceptualize them. Do they conform to a single category of 'law'? How are divergent understandings of the nature and purpose of law to be described and explained? Such questions reach to the heart of philosophical attempts to understand the...
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Keywords:: Complex law

Law

Legalism

Social life

Morality

Moral order

State-centred law

Simple law

Africa

Jurisprudence
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Deposit date:: 2015-01-16

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