Legalism: Property and Ownership

Legalism: Property and Ownership

Edited by Georgy Kantor, Tom Lambert, and Hannah Skoda

Legalism

  • Brings together anthropologists and historians to examine how property and ownership operate and are understood across broad historical and geographical contexts
  • Offers a truly cross-cultural perspective, and makes specialist case studies visible and accessible to non-specialists
  • Partakes in a larger intellectual debate developed across disciplines - from anthropology to history to legal theory
  • (Subjects: comparative law; anthropology; history; property; ownership)


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