Banded Contracts, Mediating Institutions, and Corporate Governance: A Naturalist Analysis of Contractual Theories of the Firm [PDF]
, 1999 Fort and Noone relate business ethics to notions of transcendence found in nature and anthropology. They address the notion of contracts within corporate legal theory because contracts are used as a model both by those who advocate minimalist, agency ...
Fort, Timothy L., Noone, James J.
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indigenous perspectives on global norms [PDF]
, 2019 Ever since Evo Morales Ayma became Bolivia's first indigenous president in 2006 and the promulgation of a human-rights-enhancing Constitution (2009) thereafter, indigenous peoples’ rights were gradually recognised.
Eichler, Jessika
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Current status of forensic anthropology in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
Egyptian Journal of Forensic SciencesBackground Forensic anthropology has evolved significantly, from its foundations in the nineteenth century to its formal establishment in the twentieth century and in particular with modern advancements from the 1970s onward.
Cindy Mansour +2 more
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Alchemy in un mundo al revés: Gold, “Raw Law” and Indigenous Law in Colombia’s armed conflict
Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2020 Using the concept of alchemy as a conceptual backbone, this article explores the effects of diverse legal pluralities on the Embera Chamí Indigenous people living in the gold-rich ancestral homeland of the Resguardo Indígena Cañamomo Lomaprieta in Caldas,
Viviane Weitzner
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Managing Ambiguous Amphibians: Feral Cows, People, and Place in Ukraine’s Danube Delta [PDF]
, 2018 This paper analyzes how a herd of feral cattle emerged in the core zone of Ukraine’s Danube Biosphere Reserve and why it still exists despite numerous challenges to the legality of its presence there.
Richardson, Tanya
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Cosmopolitanism and Human Reason [PDF]
, 2019 Over and above the modalities with which it is expressed in the domains of Kant’s system, the theme of cosmopolitanism embodies the meaning of a philosophy seen as a plan to build on the connection between man, polis and reason; an essential connection ...
cicatello a
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Struggling over procedures and other interventions: a comment on David Graeber’s “Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class" [PDF]
, 2014 Special section meditation on David Graeber's Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial ...
Cowan, Jane K
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Odds and Necessity of an Anthropology of Law
Revista de Antropología Social, 2015 Why not see the law as a Roman tale analogically and imperialistically projected inside the study of “primitive” societies by anthropologists? This article’s main topic is firstly the capacity of law to be the science of its own rationales and practices,
Louis Assier-Andrieu
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Anthropology on trial: exploring the laws of anthropological expertise [PDF]
, 2016 This paper explores the role of anthropological expertise in shaping the outcome of legal proceedings under conditions of cultural diversity. Taking the state-driven land-restitution process in postapartheid South Africa as its point of reference, the ...
Zenker, Olaf
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Degrees of permeability: confinement, power and resistance in Freetown's Central Prison
, 2020 This article deconstructs a binary that has arisen between prisons as, on the one hand, ‘total institutions’ of exclusion and, on the other, ‘carceral continuums’ that incorporate marginalized urban livelihoods. The experiences of four inmates at Pademba
Schneider, L.
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