Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Introduction: the fabrication of persons and things
- 2 Res Religiosae: on the categories of religion and commerce in Roman law
- 3 Scientific objects and legal objectivity
- 4 Legal fabrications and the case of ‘cultural property’
- 5 Ownership or office? A debate in Islamic Hanafite jurisprudence over the nature of the military ‘fief’, from the Mamluks to the Ottomans
- 6 Gedik: a bundle of rights and obligations for Istanbul artisans and traders, 1750–1840
- 7 Losing (out on) intellectual resources
- 8 Re-visualising attachment: an anthropological perspective on persons and property forms
- 9 Our original inheritance
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Introduction: the fabrication of persons and things
- 2 Res Religiosae: on the categories of religion and commerce in Roman law
- 3 Scientific objects and legal objectivity
- 4 Legal fabrications and the case of ‘cultural property’
- 5 Ownership or office? A debate in Islamic Hanafite jurisprudence over the nature of the military ‘fief’, from the Mamluks to the Ottomans
- 6 Gedik: a bundle of rights and obligations for Istanbul artisans and traders, 1750–1840
- 7 Losing (out on) intellectual resources
- 8 Re-visualising attachment: an anthropological perspective on persons and property forms
- 9 Our original inheritance
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Law, Anthropology, and the Constitution of the SocialMaking Persons and Things, pp. viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004