The power of law in a transnational world : anthropological enquiries / / edited by Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826375703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Berghahn Books, c2009
• ISBN: 0-85745-616-4; 1-282-62775-9; 9786612627750; 1-84545-916-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): Benda-BeckmannFranz von; Benda-BeckmannKeebet von; GriffithsAnne M. O
• Disciplina: 340/.115
• Soggetti: Legal polycentricity; Law and globalization; Law and anthropology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The military order of 13 November 2001 : an ethnographic reading / Carol J. Greenhouse -- Law and the frontiers of illegalities / Laura Nader -- Selective scrutiny : supranational engagement with minority protection and rights in Europe / Jane K. Cowan -- The globalization of fatwas amidst the terror wars against pluralism / Upendra Baxi -- Human rights, cultural relativism and legal pluralism : towards a two-dimensional debate / Franz von Benda-Beckmann -- Learning communities and legal spaces : community-based fisheries management in a globalizing world / Melanie G. Wiber and John F. Kearney -- Project law : a power instrument of development agencies : a case study from Burundi / Markus Weilenmann -- Half-told truths and partial silence : managing communication in Scottish children's hearings / Anne Griffiths and Randy F. Kandel -- Keeping the stream of justice clear and pure : the Buddhicization of Bhutanese law / Richard W. Whitecross -- Balancing Islam, Adat and the state : comparing ; Islamic and civil courts in Indonesia / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann -- Kings, monks, bureaucrats and the police : Tibetan responses to law and authority / Fernanda Pirie.
• Sommario/riassunto: The modes in which historical research is being shaped have become themselves topics of research. Holocaust historiography-the documentation, depiction and analysis of one of the most horrific events in human history-is today a wide ranging academic field in which Jewish and non-Jewish scholars throughout the world are active. But how did this historiography, especially its Jewish aspect, emerge and by what factors was it shaped? This volume examines the very beginnings of the effort to apply scholarly standards to the understanding of the Holocaust-when World War II was still raging and immed