Presuming scale, making diversity: On the mischiefs of measurement and the global: Local metonym in theories of law and culture

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 185-210

  Wastell, Sari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Customary law; Diversity (concept of); Ethnicity; Globalism localism; Legal pluralism; Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035534962     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X0102100204     Document Type: Article

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