The Chestnut and the Oyster: Rereading The Cheyenne Way through the Prism of Icelandic Sagas, a Methodological Incongruity?
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Gilduin Davy, « The Chestnut and the Oyster: Rereading The Cheyenne Way through the Prism of Icelandic Sagas, a Methodological Incongruity? », Droit et société, ID : 10670/1.cf69c8...
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Is it relevant or even reasonable to compare The Cheyenne Way with the Icelandic sagas of the Middle Ages? This question only makes sense if we remember that Karl Llewellyn and Edward Adamson Hoebel repeatedly referred to the memory of medieval Iceland. In so doing, they compared two supposed models of juristics, two topoi of primitive legal culture. However, such an approach reflects a singular, original but also questionable method, which attempts to push back the boundaries of legal comparativism and ultimately, as Claude Lévi-Strauss pointed out, amounts to comparing a chestnut and an oyster.
