The law is a white dog : how legal rituals make and unmake persons / Colin Dayan.

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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, c2011.

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1st edition

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79670

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Persons (Law) -- United States.

Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Torture -- United States.

Civil rights -- United States.

Law -- United States -- Social aspects.

Contents:

1. Holy dogs, Hecuba's bark

2. Civil death

3. Punishing the residue

4. Taxonomies

5. A legal ethnography

6. Who gets to be wanton?

7. Skin of the dog.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9780691070919

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xvii, 343 p. ; 24 cm