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About the Book
• Winner, 2006 Book Prize, Canadian Law Society Association
Comparative law and legal anthropology have traditionally restricted themselves to their own fields of inquiry. Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities turns this tendency on its head and investigates what happens when the voices of each discipline are invited to speak to each other. Susan Drummond forges this hybrid form of comparative work through small- and large-scale studies of Gitano marriage law as it emerges in a Western European state, in a modern urban centre, and in particular communities and families.
Drummond’s mapping of Gitano marriage law is grounded in ethnographic fieldwork in Andalucia. The study draws initially from the tradition of comparative law to focus on the emergence of Spanish state family law in a predominantly national and international context. Drummond then adopts the role of legal anthropologist to examine a particular legal culture that exists within, and also beyond, the Spanish state: that of the Gitanos and the transnational Roma. Ultimately, she brings the international, national, and cultural dimensions of law into play with one another and contemplates how all of these influences bear on the spirit of Andalusian Gitano marriage law. The result is an ethos of marriage law in a thoroughly mixed legal jurisdiction.
Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities will appeal to scholars and students in comparative law and legal anthropology, as well as readers interested in Roma studies in general, and the Gitanos in particular.
Winner of 2006 Book Prize, Canadian Law Society Association
About the Author(s)
Susan G. Drummond is Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Le Guide du Routard
Synoptic Overview
Itinerary
Approach
Preparations
Souvenir
Chapter 1 State: Intersections in Spanish Family Law
The Persistence of "Otherness"
Religion’s Domain
Shifting Contexts for Legal Reform
Shifting Esprit des Lois
Women and the Spirit of Family Law
Weak and Deep Pluralism of the Official Family
New Forms of Spanish Pluralism
The Contemporary Jurisdiction of Religion in the Official Family
Conflicting Dominions in Family Law
The Mystification of Reform through Law
Liminal Tones, Characters, and Moods
Chapter 2 Culture: Wanderings and Dwellings
Deep Pluralism and the Gypsies
A Jurisdictional Model of the Gypsies for a Jurisdictional Model of Gypsy Law
Matter out of Place
Reconceptualizing Gypsyhood
The Great Gitano Roundup: Rounding Off the State through Law
The Production of Gitanitude
Flamenco Puro and Pure Gitanitude
Chapter 3 Marriage: Hidden and Enacted Ius Commune
Hidden Constitutions
Multi-Sited Comparative Law
The Plurality of Ius Commune
Hidden Marriages
Hidden Marriages within Hidden Marriages
The Place of Gitano Family Law in Andalucia, Spain, and Europe
Conclusion: Voyage Through a Strange City
The Place of Jerez de la Frontera
A Wandering and a Dwelling Law
Notes
Index
Reviews
"A significant contribution to two scholarly fields -- comparative law and legal anthropology -- that are rarely brought together with this degree of sophistication. This is really a terrific piece of scholarship, beautifully written, and on a subject of great importance. I think Susan Drummond will receive wide recognition as a leading voice in an emerging field of study." -- David M. Engel, Distinguished Service Professor, Faculty of Law, SUNY Buffalo
"A bold rejoinder to the growing body of scholarship that advocates the globalization for law, this important book champions social diversity as a fundamental aspect of what constitutes law ... The book announces the arrival of a new thinker with an original perspective on comparative law and on the theory of legal systems generally." -- Nicholas Kasirer, James McGill Professor of Law, McGill University
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
Law
Anthropology
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