TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dayan,Colin
TI  - The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons 
SN  - 9780691070919
AV  - KF465 .D39 2017
U1  - 346.73012 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Civil rights -- United States
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - United States
KW  - Law -- Social aspects -- United States
KW  - Law
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Persons (Law) -- United States
KW  - Persons (Law)
KW  - Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States
KW  - Torture -- United States
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American prison system
KW  - Constitution
KW  - Hecuba
KW  - Herman Melville
KW  - Judeo-Christian
KW  - animal treatment
KW  - animals
KW  - appellate cases
KW  - banishment
KW  - chattels
KW  - civil death
KW  - civil existence
KW  - civil ghost
KW  - degradation
KW  - deprivation
KW  - dignity
KW  - dogs
KW  - domesticated animals
KW  - felon
KW  - felons
KW  - genocide
KW  - ghosts
KW  - human chattels
KW  - human empathy
KW  - human rights
KW  - illegal practices
KW  - incarceration
KW  - inferiority
KW  - juridical diminution
KW  - larceny
KW  - lawful repression
KW  - legal boundaries
KW  - legal protections
KW  - legal rituals
KW  - legality
KW  - modern law
KW  - modernity
KW  - negative personhood
KW  - personal identity
KW  - personal rights
KW  - post-Magna Carta
KW  - property
KW  - punishment
KW  - punishments
KW  - religious fictions
KW  - restitution
KW  - servitude
KW  - slave law
KW  - slave
KW  - slavery
KW  - slaves
KW  - social death
KW  - social marginalization
KW  - spectral emanations
KW  - supermax penitentiary
KW  - taxonomies
KW  - torture
KW  - untamed animals
KW  - war on terror
KW  - wills
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 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 --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state--all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such troubling cases, The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities, both natural and supernatural, including ghosts, dogs, slaves, terrorist suspects, and felons? Reading the language, allusions, and symbols of legal discourse, and bridging distinctions between the human and nonhuman, Colin Dayan looks at how the law disfigures individuals and animals, and how slavery, punishment, and torture create unforeseen effects in our daily lives. Moving seamlessly across genres and disciplines, Dayan considers legal practices and spiritual beliefs from medieval England, the North American colonies, and the Caribbean that have survived in our legal discourse, and she explores the civil deaths of felons and slaves through lawful repression. Tracing the legacy of slavery in the United States in the structures of the contemporary American prison system and in the administrative detention of ghostly supermax facilities, she also demonstrates how contemporary jurisprudence regarding cruel and unusual punishment prepared the way for abuses in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Using conventional historical and legal sources to answer unconventional questions, The Law Is a White Dog illuminates stark truths about civil society's ability to marginalize, exclude, and dehumanize
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838592?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400838592
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400838592/original
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