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Doing Kinship by Doing Law?

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: The rigidity of law, according to an early founder of the German-language strand of the sociology of law, signals the domination of the dead over the living (Ehrlich 1913: 323).Legally standardized ideals of action and the actual everyday practice of dealing with the law are not necessarily compatible.Such contradictions become visible, for example, in moments in which there is a struggle for interpretative sovereignty over legal claims.Through a practice-oriented lens, law is woven into relationships between persons, but at the same time it is reinterpreted, contested, acted out, or even rejected in these relationships.

Source: Anthropology Matters

DOI: 10.22582/am.v21i1.586

Authors: Felix Gaillinger, Julia Böcker, Michèle Kretschel-Kratz, Sarah Mühlbacher

Institutions: University of Vienna, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Goethe University Frankfurt

Language: English

Topic: Anthropological Studies and Insights

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Universität Hamburg