Custom, courts, and class formation: Constructing the hegemonic process through the petty sessions of a southeastern Irish parish, 1828-1884

American Ethnologist

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 400-430

  Silverman, Marilyn ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Class formation; Colonialism; Courts; Hegemony; Historical anthropology; Ireland; Political legal anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034343696     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2000.27.2.400     Document Type: Article

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