By Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns
ISBN-10: 047210862X
ISBN-13: 9780472108626
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To ask under what conditions it became conceivable to comprehend law as something that regulates culture or culture as something that helps us understand law is to inquire into a history that reveals mutual implications in European modes of domination. To make this point, I will delineate a genealogy of these concepts as they developed in European modernity. From this genealogy we discover points of departure from which to effect a displacement of law and culture as discrete and naturalized domains of social life.
Fox (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1991), 191. 52. James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), 19, 22. 53. Thomas, "Against Ethnography," 317. 54. Jean Comaroff, Body ofPower, Spirit ofResistance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985). 55. Arjun Appadurai, "Disjunctures and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy," Public Culture 2 (199 0 ): 1,3. LAW IN THE DOMAINS OF CULTURE discrete cultures that can be studied simply in terms of their internal system of meanings.
Legal means and forums may legitimate or undermine such deployments. The law must be understood not simply as an institutional forum or legitimating discourse to which social groups turn to have preexisting differences recognized, but, more crucially, as a central locus for the control and dissemination of those signifying forms with which difference is made and remade. The signifying forms around which political action mobilizes and with which social rearticulations are accomplished are attractive and compelling precisely because of the qualities of the powers legally bestowed upon them.