Space and legal pluralism: An introduction

Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-29

  von Benda Beckmann, Franz ^a,b,c   von Benda Beckmann, Keebet ^a,b,c   Griffiths, Anne ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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