Lawyers And Savages: Ancient History And Legal Realism In The Making Of Legal Anthropology (Glasshouse Books)

Lawyers and Savages explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism, and its connection to the colonial encounter. Through examples such as blood feuds, communalism, ritual formalism, and polygamy, the book traces the intellectual revolution of legal anthropology and demonstrates how this scholarship had a clear impact in legitimating the colonial experience. Detailing how legal realism drew on anthropology in order to help counter the hypothetical constructs of legal formalism, this book also shows how, despite the explicit rejection, the central themes of primitive law continue to influence current ideas - about indigenous legal systems, but also of the place and role of law in development.--Preliminary page.

• | Author: Kaius Tuori
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 26, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 041573701X
• | ISBN-13: 9780415737012