The law is a white dog [electronic resource] : how legal rituals make and unmake persons / Colin Dayan.
Dayan, Colin.
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.
Author Dayan, Colin.
ISBN 9781400838592 (electronic bk.)
9780691070919
Imprint Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 343 p.)
Call Number 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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