Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index.
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The common sense of law -- Law order and reality -- Reality, anthropology and dispute resolution -- Making rules, making property and translating disputes -- Defining disputes and comprehending the world -- Women and subordination -- Patriarchal relations and marriage -- Men, women, work and law -- The wider implications of the rule of law -- Legitimation, sovereignty and globalisation -- Equality and the rule of law -- Reconsiderations.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The aim of this text is to attempt to understand the role of law in the wider world rather than simply in its own terms. Law is considered as ideology and as politics, and a political critique of law's role in facilitating a capitalist world is presented.