Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law

Informationen zum Autor Ronald Niezen is Professor of Anthropology and Canada Research Chair at McGill University. He has a wide range of international research experience, including work with the UN Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Arctic Council. His publications include Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree Society, 2nd edition (2008) and The Rediscovered Self: Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice (2009). Klappentext Ronald Niezen examines the impact of public opinion on the processes by which human rights are defended in international law. Zusammenfassung Ronald Niezen examines the processes by which cultural concepts are conceived and collective human rights are defended in international law. Niezen's discussion of the impact of public opinion on law provides fresh insights into the growing importance of legally-constructed identity and the changing pathways through which it is being shaped. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The imagined order; 2. The power of persons unknown; 3. Cultural lobbying; 4. The invention of indigenous peoples; 5. Civilizing a divided world; 6. Reconciliation; 7. Juridification.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Niezen, Ronald (Mcgill University Niezen, Niezen Ronald
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.2010
• EAN: 9780521152204
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15220-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: New Departures in Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law