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Author:   Paul Dresch (Emertius Research Fellow, Emertius Research Fellow, St John's College, Oxford) ,  Judith Scheele (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 30.30cm
Weight:   0.654kg
ISBN:  

9780198753810

ISBN 10:   0198753810
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   12 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Paul Dresch and Judith Scheele: Introduction: Rules and Categories: An Overview 1: Don Davis: Rules, Culture, and Imagination in Sanskrit Jurisprudence 2: Paul Dresch: Written Law as Words to Live By 3: Caroline Humfress: Telling Stories About (Roman) Law: Rules and Concepts in Legal Discourse 4: Fernanda Pirie: Rules, Proverbs, and Persuasion: Legalism and Rhetoric in Tibet 5: Alice Rio: 'Half-Free' Categories in the Early Middle Ages: Fine Status-Distinctions Before Professional Lawyers 6: Judith Scheele: In Praise of Disorder: Breaking the Rules in Northern Chad 7: Simon Franklin: A Polyphony of Legal Forms: The Case of Early Rus 8: Elizabeth Ewart: Categories and Consequences in Amazonia 9: Morgan Clarke: Legalism and the Care of the Self: Shari'ah Discourse in Contemporary Lebanon

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Paul Dresch is an emeritus Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. His publications include Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen (1989), A History of Modern Yemen (2000), and The Rules of Barat (2006). He has co-edited volumes (with Pierre Bonte and Edouard Conte) on Islamic politics and kinship and (with James Piscatori) on the Arab Gulf. With Hannah Skoda he co-edited Legalism: Anthropology and History (2012). Judith Scheele is a Social Anthropologist and a Post-Doctoral Research fFellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Her publications include Village Matters: Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia (2009) and Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century (2012). She has co-edited (with James McDougall) Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa (Indiana UP) and (with Fernanda Pirie) Legalism: Community and Justice (OUP, 2014).

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