LIVING FICTIONS
The theme of “living fictions” comes from a presentation I gave at a recent meeting of the EASA Anthropology of Law and Rights network…
Read MoreThe theme of “living fictions” comes from a presentation I gave at a recent meeting of the EASA Anthropology of Law and Rights network…
Read MoreCool kids. On a rainy afternoon towards the end of my fieldwork in Qilin, southwest China, I sat with one of my informants, Jiao…
Read MoreOne interesting way to (momentarily) close this thematic week about living fictions (one that could also speak to many other thematic weeks here on…
Read More“You have already been incredibly faithful towards the man. And you have been following all the relevant rules for establishing a co-operative. Now, what…
Read MoreIn Argentina, indigenous people have been historically marginalised and rendered invisible (Gordillo & Hirsch 2003). However, over the last couple of decades there has…
Read MoreToday’s inquiry into the nature of legal fictions takes us to Jordan’s government-run Sharia courts, where the concept of “divorce before consummation” (ṭalāq qabl…
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