Of doubt and proof ritual and legal practices of judgment

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Antoine Garapon -- Introduction : technologies of doubt in law and ritual / Anthony Good, Daniela Berti and Gilles Tarabout -- Technicalities of doubting : temple consultations and criminal trials in India / Daniela Berti -- Judging destiny: doubt and certainty in Chinese divinatory rituals / Stéphanie Homola -- Religious uncertainty, astrology, and the courts in South India / Gilles Tarabout -- When judges feel misjudged : encountering doubt in Ghanaian courts / Jan Budniok -- Doubt in action: the different times of doubt in French Assize Courts / Véronique Bouillier -- 'The benefit of the doubt' in British asylum claims and international cricket / Anthony Good -- In doubt : documents as fetishes in the Danish asylum system / Zachary Whyte -- Emotions as evidence : hearings in the French asylum court / Carolina Kobelinsky -- Afterword / Tobias Kelly.