Law Is a Multilevel Cultural Universal: The Theoretical Achievements of Leopold Pospisil’s Anthropology of Law
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Law Is a Multilevel Cultural Universal: The Theoretical Achievements of Leopold Pospisil’s Anthropology of Law
Original language description
Leopold Pospisil, by providing an objective and defensible means to identify law in the field, succeeded in advancing, if not solving, the problem of ‘who has law’ that Malinowski had failed to resolve. His proposal includes among its benefits the conclusion that all functioning societies possess law. No stable group, in other words, is ‘lawless’, contrary to the claims of primarily European colonisers and many contemporary social scientists and legal theorists. The theoretical productivity of Pospisil's ontological model of law becomes evident with the contributions of Anthropology of Law towards other enduring problems, particularly as to where legal pluralism exists, if at all. Prominent critiques of legal pluralism are examined, finding that alternative models cannot perform as well as Pospisil’s, which assigns state law a modest status as one among several instances of law rather than the whole of the category itself. While Pospisil's innovative models have not received the explicit recognition one might expect, his major conclusions have been adopted as standard understandings among workers within law and anthropology.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Leading Works in Law and Anthropology
ISBN
978-1-03-211853-6
Number of pages of the result
21
Pages from-to
28-48
Number of pages of the book
248
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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