M M Slaughter
Biographic Data
| ID | 744214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M M Slaughter |
| GIVEN NAMES | M M |
| FAMILY NAME | Slaughter |
| SIGNATURE | SLAUGHTER M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Moving Beyond the Law of The Fathers Toni Morrison's Paradise
You don't have to know the work of the legal theorist, Pierre Legendre, to read Toni Morrison's new novel, Paradise (Morrison 1997) but it doesn't hurt. The novel is not ostensibly about law (as one might expect, in Paradise there is no crime). Nevertheless, law is central to the novel. It is what the paradisal community rests on, the foundation of the symbolic order. It lays down what would be taken to be the inalterable places of this society a…
Contested Identities
The Indian Child Welfare Act gives the tribes the power to determine the placement of Indian children. American Indian tribes are semi-sovereign entities which retain the power to control their internal affairs and are not constrained by the Constitution. In making child welfare determinations tribes engage in practices which in other cases would be unconstitutional: they apply group rights to trump parental interests and they determine tribal me…
American Indian Tribes
The Multicultural Self
Universal Languages and Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century
The Rise of Essentialist Taxonomy: 1. The Aristotelian origins 2. Taxonomy 3. Nomenclature Part II. The Development of the Universal Languages: 4. The groundwork 5. Proposals and schemes for a universal language 6. Proposals for a philosophical language 7. Schemes for a philosophical language 8. The culmination, aftermath and end Part III. The End of the Taxonomic Episteme: 9. The fall of essentialist taxonomy Notes Bibliography Index.
Literacy and society
Universal Languages and Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century
Contested Identities
The Indian Child Welfare Act gives the tribes the power to determine the placement of Indian children. American Indian tribes are semi-sovereign entities which retain the power to control their internal affairs and are not constrained by the Constitution. In making child welfare determinations tribes engage in practices which in other cases would be unconstitutional: they apply group rights to trump parental interests and they determine tribal me…
Universal Languages and Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century
Literacy and society
Universal Languages and Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century
The Rise of Essentialist Taxonomy: 1. The Aristotelian origins 2. Taxonomy 3. Nomenclature Part II. The Development of the Universal Languages: 4. The groundwork 5. Proposals and schemes for a universal language 6. Proposals for a philosophical language 7. Schemes for a philosophical language 8. The culmination, aftermath and end Part III. The End of the Taxonomic Episteme: 9. The fall of essentialist taxonomy Notes Bibliography Index.
The Multicultural Self
Moving Beyond the Law of The Fathers Toni Morrison's Paradise
You don't have to know the work of the legal theorist, Pierre Legendre, to read Toni Morrison's new novel, Paradise (Morrison 1997) but it doesn't hurt. The novel is not ostensibly about law (as one might expect, in Paradise there is no crime). Nevertheless, law is central to the novel. It is what the paradisal community rests on, the foundation of the symbolic order. It lays down what would be taken to be the inalterable places of this society a…
Contested Identities
The Indian Child Welfare Act gives the tribes the power to determine the placement of Indian children. American Indian tribes are semi-sovereign entities which retain the power to control their internal affairs and are not constrained by the Constitution. In making child welfare determinations tribes engage in practices which in other cases would be unconstitutional: they apply group rights to trump parental interests and they determine tribal me…
American Indian Tribes
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