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This page intentionally left blank LAW, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SOCIAL This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores how persons and things–thecentralelementsofthesocial–arefabricatedbylegalrituals and institutions. The contributors, legal and anthropological theorists alike,focusonasetofspecificinstitutionalandethnographiccontexts, andsomeunexpectedandthought-provokinganalogiesemergefromthis intellectualencounterbetweenlawandanthropology.Forexample,con- temporaryanxietiesaboutthelegalstatusofthebiotechnologicalbody seem to resonate with the questions addressed by ancient Roman law initstreatmentofdeadbodies.Theanalogybetweencopyrightandthe transmissionofintangibledesignsinMelanesiasuddenlymakesWestern imagesofauthorshipseemquiteunfamiliar.Acomparisonbetweenlaw andlaboratorysciencepresentstheproductionoflegalartefactsinanew light.Thesestudiesareofparticularrelevanceatatimewhenlaw,faced withtheinventivenessofbiotechnology,findsitincreasinglydifficultto drawthelinebetweenpersonsandthings. ALAIN POTTAGE isReaderinLawattheLondonSchoolofEconomics and Political Science. Previously he has taught in the law schools of King’sCollege,London,andSydneyUniversity.Hehaspublishedexten- sivelyonquestionsofpropertylawandlegaltheory. MARTHA MUNDY is Reader in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published an ethnog- raphy, Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen(1995),andeditedseveralbooks,mostrecently,TheTransforma- tion of Nomadic Society in the Arab East (co-edited with B. Musallam, Cambridge,2000)andLawandAnthropology(2002). CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY CambridgeStudiesinLawandSocietyaimstopublishthebestscholarlyworkon legaldiscourseandpracticeinitssocialandinstitutionalcontexts,combining theoreticalinsightsandempiricalresearch. 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CONTENTS Notesoncontributors page viii 1 Introduction:thefabricationofpersonsandthings 1 AlainPottage 2 ResReligiosae:onthecategoriesofreligionandcommerce inRomanlaw 40 YanThomas 3 Scientificobjectsandlegalobjectivity 73 BrunoLatour 4 Legalfabricationsandthecaseof‘culturalproperty’ 115 TimMurphy 5 Ownershiporoffice?AdebateinIslamicHanafite jurisprudenceoverthenatureofthemilitary‘fief’,from theMamlukstotheOttomans 142 MarthaMundy 6 Gedik:abundleofrightsandobligationsforIstanbul artisansandtraders,1750–1840 166 EnginDenizAkarlı 7 Losing(outon)intellectualresources 201 MarilynStrathern 8 Re-visualisingattachment:ananthropological perspectiveonpersonsandpropertyforms 234 SusanneKu¨chler 9 Ouroriginalinheritance 249 AlainPottage Bibliography 286 Index 302 vii CONTRIBUTORS EnginAkarlıistheJoukowskyFamilyDistinguishedProfessorofMod- ernMiddleEastHistoryatBrownUniversity.Hehastaughtatseveral universities, serves on the editorial board of Islamic Law and Society, and is the author of several publications including Political Participa- tion in Turkey (1974), Belgelerle Tanzimat (1977), and The Long Peace: OttomanLebanon,1861–1920(1993). SusanneKu¨chlerisReaderinMaterialCultureStudiesintheDepart- mentofAnthropology,UniversityCollegeLondon.Shehaswrittenon images of memory and the art of forgetting with special reference to thePacific.CurrentlysheisdirectinganESRCfundedprojectentitled ‘Clothing the Pacific’, linking University College London, the British Museum,andGoldsmithsCollege. Bruno Latour is Professor in the Centre of Innovation at the E´cole NormaleSupe´rieuredesMinesinParis.Healsoholdsappointmentsat theLondonSchoolofEconomicsandintheDepartmentoftheHistory of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, most of which have been translated into English, notably We Have Never Been Modern (1993), Aramis or the Love of Technology (1996), andPandora’sHope(1999). MarthaMundyisReaderinAnthropologyattheLondonSchoolof Economics. Earlier she taught at Yarmouk University in Jordan, Uni- versite´Lyon2Lumie`re,UCLA,andtheAmericanUniversityofBeirut. TogetherwithRichardSaumarezSmith,sheiscompletingamonograph on The State of Property: Law, Administration and Production in Late OttomanSouthernSyria. TimMurphyisProfessorofLawattheLondonSchoolofEconomics. Hispublicationsinclude(withSimonRoberts)UnderstandingProperty Law (3rd edn, 1998) and The Oldest Social Science? Configurations of Law and Modernity (1997). His current research is in the field of law andsocialtheoryandthehistoryandtheoryofheritage. Alain Pottage is Reader in Law at the London School of Eco- nomics.Hehaswrittenonvariousaspectsoflawandsocialtheory,with viii
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