law as indigenous social theory: a Siamese Thai case

Abstract

Anthropologists often treat law as a discrete subject classified with politics and power and studied by nomothetic constructs. This treatment presupposes the place of law in society and denies history. To see law as a culturally constituted mode of analysis that projects an indigenous theory of society is to view a society in its own idiographic terms, and thereby demonstrate that it need not fit pre‐established classification and constructs. Traditional Siamese Thai law is presented as an indigenous and historical theory of society that links law with religion and meaning.[legal anthropology, culture and meaning, historical anthropology]

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