{"product_id":"9781912808472-nullius","title":"Nullius – The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNullius\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthropological account of the troubled status of ownership in India and its consequences for our understanding of sovereignty and social relations. Though property rights and ownership are said to be a cornerstone of modern law, in the Indian case they are often a spectral presence. Kapila offers a detailed study of paradigms where proprietary relations have been erased, denied, misappropriated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book examines three forms of negation, where the Indian state \u003ci\u003ede facto\u003c\/i\u003e adopted doctrines of \u003ci\u003eterra nullius\u003c\/i\u003e (in the erasure of indigenous title), \u003ci\u003eres nullius\u003c\/i\u003e (in acquiring museum objects), and, controversially, \u003ci\u003ecorpus nullius\u003c\/i\u003e (in denying citizens ownership of their bodies under biometrics). The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of questions of property, exchange, dispossession, law, and sovereignty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40113166581857,"sku":"9781912808472","price":21.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/686f8c3e84ac9f3adb1084f77794aba3.jpg?v=1655878987","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781912808472-nullius","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}