An Archeology of Law as a Metaphor

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Result on the web

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

Archeologie práva jako metafora: Archeologická imaginace v antropologii práva

Original language description

This article uses archeology as a metaphor in order to conceptualize anthropological practices of significance within the anthropology of law, employed mostly after personal fieldwork. Taking the gradual clarification of the meaning of the Western legal concept of vis major as an example, the article traces its various permutations at different times and places, from 18th and 19th century Europe to the contemporary Peruvian Andes, where mountain and glacier deities are seen as analogies to vis major, and to China during the Ming dynasty, where the Mandate of Heaven was identified as a true alternative to the Western concept of supreme or natural force. In conclusion, the archeological imagination is seen as a more appropriate process than conventional anthropological comparison, juxtaposition and generalization.

Czech name

Archeologie práva jako metafora: Archeologická imaginace v antropologii práva

Czech description

This article uses archeology as a metaphor in order to conceptualize anthropological practices of significance within the anthropology of law, employed mostly after personal fieldwork. Taking the gradual clarification of the meaning of the Western legal concept of vis major as an example, the article traces its various permutations at different times and places, from 18th and 19th century Europe to the contemporary Peruvian Andes, where mountain and glacier deities are seen as analogies to vis major, and to China during the Ming dynasty, where the Mandate of Heaven was identified as a true alternative to the Western concept of supreme or natural force. In conclusion, the archeological imagination is seen as a more appropriate process than conventional anthropological comparison, juxtaposition and generalization.

Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

AntropoWebzin

ISSN

1801-8807

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2016

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

1-12

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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