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Review Symposium: Interdisciplinary Readings of Ari Z. Bryen's Violence in Roman Egypt: Where Law, Violence, and Culture Collide: A Sociolegal Reading of Violence in Everyday Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Jill D. Weinberg
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Abstract

This comment considers Ari Bryen's Violence in Roman Egypt (2013) from sociological and sociolegal perspectives. Although Bryen is a historian, and his site of inquiry is second‐century Roman Egypt, he turns to contemporary sociologists and law and society scholars to highlight the interplay between law and the social world in the construction of violence. In doing so, he finds a new way to analyze the role of law as a cultural resource for nonelites to make sense of their social world but also to change it (albeit with limits) through law.

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Review Essay
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , Summer 2015 , pp. 802 - 806
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2015 

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