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Dayan, Colin.

The law is a white dog how legal rituals make and unmake persons / [electronic resource] : Colin Dayan. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011. - xvii, 343 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Holy dogs, Hecuba's bark -- Civil death -- Punishing the residue -- Taxonomies -- A legal ethnography -- Who gets to be wanton? -- Skin of the dog.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Persons (Law)--United States.
Slavery--Law and legislation--United States.
Torture--United States.
Civil rights--United States.
Law--Social aspects--United States.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: KF465 / .D39 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 346.7301/2