1 Introduction: the fabrication of persons and things Alain Pottage 1
2 Res Religiosae: on the categories of religion and commercein Roman Iaw&Yan Thomas 40
3 Scientific objects and legal objectivity Bruno Latour 73
4 Legal fabrications and the case of 'cultural property'Tim Murphy 115
5 Ownership or office? A debate in Islamic Hanafite jurisprudence over the nature of the military 'fief, from the Mamluks to the Ottomans Martha Mundy 142
6 Gedik: a bundle of rights and obligations for Istanbul artisans and traders, 1750-1840 Engin Deniz Akarh 166
7 Losing (out on) intellectual resources Marilyn Strathern 201
8 Re-visualising attachment: an anthropological perspective on persons and property forms Susanne Kiichler 234
9 Our original inheritance Alain Pottage 249
Bibliography 286
Index 302