The law is a white dog [electronic resource] : how legal rituals make and unmake persons / Colin Dayan.
2011
KF465 .D39 2011eb
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Title
The law is a white dog [electronic resource] : how legal rituals make and unmake persons / Colin Dayan.
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ISBN
9781400838592 (electronic bk.)
9780691070919
9780691070919
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 343 pages)
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KF465 .D39 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
346.7301/2
Summary
Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state--all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such troubling cases, The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons?
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Table of Contents
Holy dogs, Hecuba's bark
Civil death
Punishing the residue
Taxonomies
A legal ethnography
Who gets to be wanton?
Skin of the dog.
Civil death
Punishing the residue
Taxonomies
A legal ethnography
Who gets to be wanton?
Skin of the dog.