Circumventing the Law David Sinden and practices infuse our society

and practices infuse our society

Kuhn argues that the recycling of these set-pieces encouraged audiences to process new cultural sites through the lens of old performance tropes

local and settler miners turn to gold as a means to get by and get ahead on the margins of capitalism

storytelling and poetry recitals are performances of human rights and strategies for opening public space in Morocco

those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships

Circumventing the Law David Sinden and practices infuse our societyCircumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. The logic of haaramah, a subset of rabbinic legal circumventions mostly defined as a tool for private life, underpins both well known circumventions, such as selling leaven before Passover, and lesser known mechanisms, such as designating an animal intended for sacrifice blemished