Legal Anthropology

Author : James M. Donovan
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759109834
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Anthropology written by James M. Donovan and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal Anthropology: An Introduction offers an initial overview of the challenging debates surrounding the cross-cultural analysis of legal systems. Equal parts review and criticism, James M. Donovan outlines the historical landmarks in the development of the discipline, identifying both strengths and weaknesses of each stage and contribution. Legal Anthropology suggests that future progress can be made by looking at the perceived fairness of social regulation, rather than sanction or dispute resolution as the distinguishing feature of law.

Author : Marie-Claire Foblets
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192577018
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology written by Marie-Claire Foblets and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology is a ground-breaking collection of essays that provides an original and internationally framed conception of the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic interconnections of law and anthropology. Each of the chapters in the Handbook provides a survey of the current state of scholarly debate and an argument about the future direction of research in this dynamic and interdisciplinary field. The structure of the Handbook is animated by an overarching collective narrative about how law and anthropology have and should relate to each other as intersecting domains of inquiry that address such fundamental questions as dispute resolution, normative ordering, social organization, and legal, political, and social identity. The need for such a comprehensive project has become even more pressing as lawyers and anthropologists work together in an ever-increasing number of areas, including immigration and asylum processes, international justice forums, cultural heritage certification and monitoring, and the writing of new national constitutions, among many others. The Handbook takes critical stock of these various points of intersection in order to identify and conceptualize the most promising areas of innovation and sociolegal relevance, as well as to acknowledge the points of tension, open questions, and areas for future development.

Author : Mark Goodale
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479836850
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Law written by Mark Goodale and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the anthropology of law that explores the connections between law, politics, and technology From legal responsibility for genocide to rectifying past injuries to indigenous people, the anthropology of law addresses some of the crucial ethical issues of our day. Over the past twenty-five years, anthropologists have studied how new forms of law have reshaped important questions of citizenship, biotechnology, and rights movements, among many others. Meanwhile, the rise of international law and transitional justice has posed new ethical and intellectual challenges to anthropologists. Anthropology and Law provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of law in the post-Cold War era. Mark Goodale introduces the central problems of the field and builds on the legacy of its intellectual history, while a foreword by Sally Engle Merry highlights the challenges of using the law to seek justice on an international scale. The book’s chapters cover a range of intersecting areas including language and law, history, regulation, indigenous rights, and gender. For a complete understanding of the consequential ways in which anthropologists have studied, interacted with, and critiqued, the ways and means of law, Anthropology and Law is required reading.

Author : June Starr
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723324
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Power in the Study of Law written by June Starr and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the ‘legal’ as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who suggest that the subfield is dying and advocate a reintegration of legal anthropology into a renewed general anthropology. Chapters by anthropologists, sociologists, and law professors, using anthropological rather than legal methodologies, provide original analyses of particular legal developments. Some contributors adopt an interpretative approach, focusing on law as a system of meaning; others adopt a materialistic approach, analyzing the economic and political forces that historically shaped relations between social groups. Contributors include Said Armir Arjomand, Anton Blok, Bernard Cohn, George Collier, Carol Greenhouse, Sally Falk Moore, Laura Nader, June Nash, Lawrence Rosen, June Starr, and Joan Vincent.

Author : Norbert Rouland
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780485114034
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Anthropology written by Norbert Rouland and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the anthropology of law is remarkable in its command of the Anglo-American and Continental literatures in this field; and it is timely in addressing contemporary issues. Two central projects are carried through in succesive parts of the book. In the first, the author outlines the history of the "anthropology of law," drawing on the intellectual context of legal development. In the second, Professor Rouland examines the legal ideas, institutions and processes of small-scale non-Western societies, moving finally towards an anthropology of modern law. The author has published widely within the field of legal anthropology.

Author : Fernanda Pirie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199696845
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Law written by Fernanda Pirie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Questions about the nature of law, its relationship with custom, and the form of legal rules, categories and claims, are placed at the centre of this challenging, yet accessible, introduction. Anthropology of law is presented as a distinctive subject within the broader field of legal anthropology, suggesting new avenues of inquiry for the anthropologist, while also bringing empirical studies within the ambit of legal scholarship.

Author : James M. Donovan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571814234
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology & Law written by James M. Donovan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal practice renders a further important benefit to anthropology when it validates anthropological knowledge through the use of anthropologists as expert witnesses in the courtroom and the introduction of the 'culture defense' against criminal charges."--Jacket.

Author : Simon Roberts
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
ISBN 13 : 1610271858
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Order and Dispute written by Simon Roberts and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic resource in the modern study of the anthropology of law, this book is now widely available again in an updated and expanded edition. There are many societies that survive in a remarkably orderly fashion without the help of judges, law courts and policemen. They are small in scale and have relatively simple technologies, lacking those centralized agencies which we associate with legal systems; yet early anthropologists did not hesitate to name “law,” along with kinship, politics and religion, as one of the facets of their subject. Simon Roberts contends, however, that legal theory has become too closely identified with our own arrangements in western societies to be of much help in cross-cultural studies of order. But conversely, by looking at the ways in which other societies keep order and solve disputes, he sheds valuable light on the contemporary debates about order in our own society, in a straightforward text which will be accessible to the general reader and anthropologist alike. Now in its Second Edition with a new Foreword and Afterword by the author, this renowned introduction to the anthropology of law is part of the Classics of Law & Society Series from Quid Pro Books.

Author : Laura Nader
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520229886
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Law written by Laura Nader and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nader traces the evolution of the plaintiff's role in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century and convincingly argues that the atrophy of the plaintiff's power during this period undermines democracy.".

Author : James A.R. Nafziger
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781955182
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Law and Anthropology written by James A.R. Nafziger and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topical chapters in this cutting-edge collection at the intersection of comparative law and anthropology explore the mutually enriching insights and outlooks of the two fields. Comparative Law and Anthropology adopts a foundational approach to social and cultural issues and their resolution, rather than relying on unified paradigms of research or unified objects of study. Taken together, the contributions extend long-developing trends from legal anthropology to an anthropology of law and from externally imposed to internally generated interpretations of norms and processes of legal significance within particular cultures. The book's expansive conceptualization of comparative law encompasses not only its traditional geographical orientation, but also historical and jurisprudential dimensions. It is also noteworthy in blending the expertise of long-established, acclaimed scholars with new voices from a range of disciplines and backgrounds.