Leading Works in Law and Anthropology

Author: Alice Margaria; Larissa Vetters
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032118536
Published In: July 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The academic disciplines of law and sociocultural anthropology have a long but at times contentious history of drawing on each other in order to study and understand law and human experience in its diverse manifestations. This volume provides an innovative and engaging format by giving established and emerging scholars from diverse jurisdictions the opportunity to discuss and reflect upon what they consider to be a ‘leading work’.

The collection offers a unique, multi-perspectival reconsideration of the intellectual history of the field whilst also addressing issues that are at the core of interdisciplinary legal research. Contributions shed light on the changing nature of cross-disciplinary research and collaboration, trace how disciplinary understandings of normativity have cross-fertilized each other, and reflect on choices taken within research on law and anthropology along a continuum of theoretical reflection, critique, engagement and practical application. The book elaborates on the nature and the boundaries of law and anthropology research, as well as on its likely future development in light of the insights shared by contributors on their chosen leading works. The book will make fascinating reading for researchers and academics in both law and anthropology.

Acknowledgements

List of acronyms and abbreviations

Foreword

Marie-Claire Foblets

1. ‘Law and Anthropology’ as Interdisciplinary Encounter: Towards Multi-sited, Situated Knowledge Production

Larissa Vetters and Alice Margaria

2. Law is a Multilevel Cultural Universal: The Theorical Achievements of Leopold Pospisil’s Anthropology of Law: A Comparative Theory

James Donovan and Tomáš Ledvinka

3. Law’s Boundaries: Barbara Yngvesson’s Virtuous Citizens, Disruptive Subjects and the Construction of Community in the Margins of Law

Susan Bibler-Coutin

4.Unveiling ‘Everyday Harm’: Mindie Lazarus-Black’s Domestic Violence, Court Rites and Cultures of Reconciliation

Ramona Biholar

5. The European Court of Human Rights, Upending Migrant Rights: On Marie-Bénédicte Dembour’s When Humans Become Migrants

Moritz Baumgärtel

6. Challenging the Depiction of Black Families under Welfare Legislation in the USA: Carol Stack on All Our Kin

Anne Griffiths

7. Constitutional Law as Moral Insurgency? Reflections on Kalpana Kannabiran’s Tools of Justice

Sandhya Fuchs

8. A Shout in the Cathedral: Elizabeth Mertz’ Language of Law School

Riaz Tejani

9. Turning Legal Doctrine Inside Out: Susanne Baer’s The Citizen in Administrative Law

Larissa Vetters

10. The Moving of Children, the Travelling of Law: Howell’s The Kinning of Foreigners

Nola Cammu

11. A French Private International Law Perspective on ‘Alterity’: Horatia Muir Watt’s Discours sur les méthodes du droit international privé (des formes juridiques de l’inter-altérité)

Sandrine Brachotte