Law and Rationality: A Historiographical Investigation of the Understanding of Motivation and Human Agency in Early Legal Anthropology

The purpose of this article is to examine how nineteenth-century legal science conceptualized and dealt with otherness in law, with examples of legal phenomena such as ordeal and blood revenge to illustrate how the concept of legal rationality evolved in the early legal anthropology and how it still...

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Main Author: Kaius Tuori
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Language:fra
Published: Association Clio et Themis 2019-02-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cliothemis/611
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description The purpose of this article is to examine how nineteenth-century legal science conceptualized and dealt with otherness in law, with examples of legal phenomena such as ordeal and blood revenge to illustrate how the concept of legal rationality evolved in the early legal anthropology and how it still influences our understanding of legal otherness. It provides new insights on how, in the treatment of specific legal institutions, the ideas of reason and rationality could change as scholars used European medieval history to aid in the understanding of indigenous cultures.
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spelling doaj-art-bb41d382f2f44498bbe8b52f23f39e032025-08-20T03:08:18ZfraAssociation Clio et ThemisClio@Themis2105-09292019-02-011510.35562/cliothemis.611Law and Rationality: A Historiographical Investigation of the Understanding of Motivation and Human Agency in Early Legal AnthropologyKaius TuoriThe purpose of this article is to examine how nineteenth-century legal science conceptualized and dealt with otherness in law, with examples of legal phenomena such as ordeal and blood revenge to illustrate how the concept of legal rationality evolved in the early legal anthropology and how it still influences our understanding of legal otherness. It provides new insights on how, in the treatment of specific legal institutions, the ideas of reason and rationality could change as scholars used European medieval history to aid in the understanding of indigenous cultures.https://journals.openedition.org/cliothemis/611ordeallegal anthropologyprimitivismlegal realismindigenous laweuro-centrism
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Law and Rationality: A Historiographical Investigation of the Understanding of Motivation and Human Agency in Early Legal Anthropology
Clio@Themis
ordeal
legal anthropology
primitivism
legal realism
indigenous law
euro-centrism
title Law and Rationality: A Historiographical Investigation of the Understanding of Motivation and Human Agency in Early Legal Anthropology
title_full Law and Rationality: A Historiographical Investigation of the Understanding of Motivation and Human Agency in Early Legal Anthropology
title_fullStr Law and Rationality: A Historiographical Investigation of the Understanding of Motivation and Human Agency in Early Legal Anthropology
title_full_unstemmed Law and Rationality: A Historiographical Investigation of the Understanding of Motivation and Human Agency in Early Legal Anthropology
title_short Law and Rationality: A Historiographical Investigation of the Understanding of Motivation and Human Agency in Early Legal Anthropology
title_sort law and rationality a historiographical investigation of the understanding of motivation and human agency in early legal anthropology
topic ordeal
legal anthropology
primitivism
legal realism
indigenous law
euro-centrism
url https://journals.openedition.org/cliothemis/611
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