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Maurer, B

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	901103
Doc. No	:	LA1hk2j81c
Title & Author	:	Comment: [Article]. Got Language? Law, Property, and the Anthropological Imagination\ Maurer, B
Date	:	2003
Title of Periodical	:	UC Irvine
Abstract	:	This comment reflects on the legal (specifically, proprietary) tropes of linguistics, and the linguistic tropes of legal anthropology. It suggests analogies between discussions around "language rights" in contemporary political struggles, and discussions around the delineation of objects and subjects in anthropological theory. Such analogies may help side-step the relativism-universalism impasse that has beset the critique of rights and the critique of the objectification of language.