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024 7 _a10.1515/9781400838592
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400838592
035 _a(DE-B1597)453734
035 _a(OCoLC)979742129
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
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050 4 _aKF465
_b.D39 2017
072 7 _aLIT006000
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082 0 4 _a346.73012
_223
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDayan, Colin
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Law Is a White Dog :
_bHow Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons /
_cColin Dayan.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2011
300 _a1 online resource (368 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_t1. Holy Dogs, Hecuba’s Bark --
_t2. Civil Death --
_t3. Punishing The Residue --
_t4. Taxonomies --
_t5. A Legal Ethnography --
_t6. Who Gets To Be Wanton? --
_t7. Skin Of The Dog --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
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520 _aAbused 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aCivil rights -- United States.
650 0 _aCivil rights
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aLaw -- Social aspects -- United States.
650 0 _aLaw
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPersons (Law) -- United States.
650 0 _aPersons (Law)
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSlavery -- Law and legislation -- United States.
650 0 _aTorture -- United States.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
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653 _aAmerican prison system.
653 _aConstitution.
653 _aHecuba.
653 _aHerman Melville.
653 _aJudeo-Christian.
653 _aanimal treatment.
653 _aanimals.
653 _aappellate cases.
653 _abanishment.
653 _achattels.
653 _acivil death.
653 _acivil existence.
653 _acivil ghost.
653 _adegradation.
653 _adeprivation.
653 _adignity.
653 _adogs.
653 _adomesticated animals.
653 _afelon.
653 _afelons.
653 _agenocide.
653 _aghosts.
653 _ahuman chattels.
653 _ahuman empathy.
653 _ahuman rights.
653 _aillegal practices.
653 _aincarceration.
653 _ainferiority.
653 _ajuridical diminution.
653 _alarceny.
653 _alawful repression.
653 _alegal boundaries.
653 _alegal protections.
653 _alegal rituals.
653 _alegality.
653 _amodern law.
653 _amodernity.
653 _anegative personhood.
653 _apersonal identity.
653 _apersonal rights.
653 _apost-Magna Carta.
653 _aproperty.
653 _apunishment.
653 _apunishments.
653 _areligious fictions.
653 _arestitution.
653 _aservitude.
653 _aslave law.
653 _aslave.
653 _aslavery.
653 _aslaves.
653 _asocial death.
653 _asocial marginalization.
653 _aspectral emanations.
653 _asupermax penitentiary.
653 _ataxonomies.
653 _atorture.
653 _auntamed animals.
653 _awar on terror.
653 _awills.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838592?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400838592
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