Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities.

Intro -- 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 lus Commune -- Hidden Constitutions -- Multi-Sited Comparative Law -- The Plurality of lus 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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.

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