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050 00 $aKGK43$b.L39 1994
082 00 $a349.72974$a347.2074$220
100 1 $aLazarus-Black, Mindie.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82140210
245 10 $aLegitimate acts and illegal encounters :$blaw and society in Antigua and Barbuda /$cMindie Lazarus-Black.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bSmithsonian Institution Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $axxv, 357 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aNotes on Sources, Methods, and the Terminology of Race and Class -- Introduction: Life and Law in the Common Order -- 1. Fashioning a Creole Society -- 2. Legal Sensibilities in the Common Order: Revolution and Rights at Court -- 3. Constructing the Kinship Order: Antiguan Family Law, 1632-1834 -- 4. Legalities, Illegalities, and Creole Families in the Common Order, 1632-1834 -- 5. The Postemancipation Period, 1834-1936: The Era of Free Individuals and Governable Families -- 6. Family Life in the Common Order after Slavery -- 7. Making and Breaking Alliances: Family Crises and Kinship Legalities in the 1980s -- 8. Cases, Courts, and Family Ideology in the Common Order -- 9. The Present and Future of Kinship Legalities.
520 $aLegitimate Acts and Illegal Encounters examines three hundred years of social life on the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda to demonstrate the importance of law and the state in the creation of West Indian societies. Moving from the periods of slavery and emancipation under British colonial rule to recent independence, Mindie Lazarus-Black argues that the continuing struggle between lawmakers and the nonruling class has shaped the distinctive character of creole kinship, class, and gender.
520 8 $aLazarus-Black analyzes historical and social transformation on the islands, using a theoretical framework drawn from Foucault's distinction between "systems of legalities" (the signs, symbols, and rituals of law) and "systems of illegalities" (common breaches of codes or explicit tolerance of illicit behaviors).
520 8 $aShe documents the differences between local behavior and Antiguan law under slavery; the impact of family, labor, and poor laws on kinship relations in the post-emancipation era; and, in contemporary times, how men and women use the law in ways lawmakers never imagined - as when women take men to court as a form of ritual shaming. Her research reveals that the same laws used by ruling classes as tools for punitive definitions have served lower classes as instruments of both defense and resistance.
520 8 $aLegal strictures, she shows, have been used to keep the master class within its own written limits, to check elites' assumptions about the social world, and to push for a "justice" born of the experiences of the powerless.
520 8 $aAs this book demonstrates, the investigation of law and judicial processes is as central to the history and the anthropology of the powerless as it is to that of the elites. The author's interdisciplinary analysis of the dynamics of and between domination and resistance in creole society will inform students of anthropology, history, law and society, Caribbean studies, and women's studies.
650 0 $aKinship (Law)$zAntigua and Barbuda.
650 0 $aCustomary law$zAntigua and Barbuda.
650 0 $aEthnological jurisprudence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045195
650 0 $aSociological jurisprudence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124198
852 00 $bleh$hKGK43$i.L39 1994