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Dayan, Joan., 1949-

The law is a white dog : how legal rituals make and unmake persons / Colin Dayan. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011. - xvii, 343 p. : 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-323) 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.

ISBN: 9780691070919 (cloth : alk. paper) 0691070911 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2010027474

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

LC Class. No.: KF465 / .D39 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 346.7301/2