| Understanding Law in Micronesia: An Interpretive Approach to Transplanted Law Contributor(s): Tamanaha, Brian Z. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004097686 ISBN-13: 9789004097681 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1993 Annotation: This book examines law in Micronesia from a novel perspective. It draws upon several branches of interpretive analysis, including mundane phenomenology, symbolic interaction, and cultural hermeneutics, to construct a comprehensive approach to transplanted systems of state law. Rather than the usual focus on legal norms and institutions, this approach directs attention to the law-related meaningful actions and understandings of legal actors and of non-legal actors. Application of this approach results in insights about law in Micronesia, as well as about law itself, and about the ideology of law. A wide range of subjects are addressed, from the nature of legal thinking to the autonomy of law. It is a work in legal theory grounded in psychological, sociological and anthropological observations and analysis. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 349.65 |
| LCCN: 93000724 |
| Series: Studies in Human Society |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.34" W x 9.42" (0.89 lbs) 224 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This book examines law in Micronesia from a novel perspective. It draws upon several branches of interpretive analysis, including mundane phenomenology, symbolic interaction, and cultural hermeneutics, to construct a comprehensive approach to transplanted systems of state law. Rather than the usual focus on legal norms and institutions, this approach directs attention to the law-related meaningful actions and understandings of legal actors and of non-legal actors. Application of this approach results in insights about law in Micronesia, as well as about law itself, and about the ideology of law. A wide range of subjects are addressed, from the nature of legal thinking to the autonomy of law. It is a work in legal theory grounded in psychological, sociological and anthropological observations and analysis. |