AuthorDayan, Colin, 1949-
TitleThe law is a white dog : how legal rituals make and unmake persons / Colin Dayan
Imprint Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2011
Descript xvii, 343 p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Holy dogs, Hecuba's bark -- Civil death -- Punishing the residue -- Taxonomies -- A legal ethnography -- Who gets to be wanton? -- Skin of the dog


SUBJECT

  1. Persons (Law) -- United States
  2. Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States
  3. Torture -- United States
  4. Civil rights -- United States
  5. Law -- United States -- Social aspects

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