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      Property in Social Continuity: Continuity and Change in the Maintenance of Property Relationships Through Time in Minangkabau, West Sumatra

      Franz von Benda-Beckmann

      In many societies, and particularly in those generally studied by anthropologists, inherit ance and succession are closely interconnected with kinship and descent and provide the economic and political substance for…

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      Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law

      Offering an anthropological perspective, this book explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within…

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      Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society

      Exploring the interrelations between social spaces and boundaries and physical space, Spatializing Law examines how spaces are constructed on the terrestrial and marine surface of the earth with legal means…

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      Mobile People, Mobile Law: Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World

      Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

      Demonstrating how users of law, who often operate in multi-sited situations, are forced to deal with increasingly complex legal circumstances, this volume focuses on political and social processes through which…

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      Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity: The Nagari from Colonisation to Decentralisation

      Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

      This long-term study of the transformation of the Minangkabau polity of nagari from early colonisation to democratic decentralisation explores the dynamic relationships between Minangkabau matrilineal adat law, Islamic law and…

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      Mobile People, Mobile Law: Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World

      Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

      Demonstrating how users of law, who often operate in multi-sited situations, are forced to deal with increasingly complex legal circumstances, this volume focuses on political and social processes through which…

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      Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law

      Offering an anthropological perspective, this book explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within…

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      Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society

      Exploring the interrelations between social spaces and boundaries and physical space, Spatializing Law examines how spaces are constructed on the terrestrial and marine surface of the earth with legal means…

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      Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity: The Nagari from Colonisation to Decentralisation

      Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

      This long-term study of the transformation of the Minangkabau polity of nagari from early colonisation to democratic decentralisation explores the dynamic relationships between Minangkabau matrilineal adat law, Islamic law and…

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      The Power of Law in a Transnational World: Anthropological Enquiries

      How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured…

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      Changing Properties of Property

      Focusing on debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this book provides theoretical material on property systems, as well as…

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      The Power of Law in a Transnational World: Anthropological Enquiries

      How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured…

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      Changing Properties of Property

      As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property…

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      Change and Continuity in Minangkabau: Local, Regional, and Historical Perspectives on West Sumatra

      Lynn L. Thomas,Franz Von Benda-Beckmann

      Social scientists have long recognized many apparent contradictions in the Minangkabau. The world’s largest matrilineal people, they are also strongly Islamic and, as a society, remarkably modern and outward looking.

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      Between kinship and the state: Social security and law in developing countries

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      Living Law: Reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich

      This book provides an introduction to the important scholarship of Eugen Ehrlich and a starting point for further reading and discussion.

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      Living Law: Reconsidering Eugen Ehrlich

      This book provides an introduction to the important scholarship of Eugen Ehrlich and a starting point for further reading and discussion.

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