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Book SynopsisThe 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, cu
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Table of ContentsGlobal perspectives on law & anthropology 1: Carol Greenhouse: Social Control through Law: Critical afterlives 2: Martin Chanock: Anthropology, Law, and Empire: Foundations in context 3: Sindiso Mnisi Weeks: South African Legal Culture and its Dis/empowerment Paradox 4: Pratiksha Baxi: The Ethnographic Gaze on State Law in India 5: Paul Burke: The Anthropology of Indigenous Australia and Native Title Claims 6: Brian Thom: Encountering Indigenous Law in Canada 7: Florian Stammler, Aytalina Ivanova, and Brian Donahoe: Russian Legal Anthropology: From empirical ethnography to applied innovation 8: Armando Guevara Gil: Indigenous Peoples, Identity, and Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation in Latin America 9: Do Dom Kim: Rule of Law and Media in the Making of Legal Identity in Urban Southern China 10: Dominik Müller: Islam, Law, and the State 11: Keebet von Benda-Beckmann: Law and Anthropology in the Netherlands: From Adat Law School to Anthropology of Law 12: Frédéric Audren and Laetitia Guerlain: Legal Uses of Anthropology in France in the 19th and 20th centuries 13: Balacz Fekete: Legal Ethnology and Legal Anthropology in Hungary 14: Michele Graziadei: The Anthropology of European Law Recurring themes in law and anthropology 15: Elizabeth Mertz: Within and Beyond the Anthropology of Language and Law 16: Anne Griffiths: Law as an Enduring Concept: Space, time, and power 17: Fernanda Pirie: Legalism: Rules, categories, and texts 18: Günter Frankenberg: Legal Transfer 19: Thomas Duve: Legal Traditions 20: Baudouin Dupret: The Concept of Positive Law and its Relationship to Religion and Morality 21: Matthew Canfield: Property Regimes 22: Markus Böckenförde, Berihun Gebeye: Law and Development 23: Mark Goodale: Rights and Social Inclusion 24: Lynette Chua: Human Rights Activism, Sexuality, and Gender Anthropology in law and legal practice 25: Alison Dundes Renteln: The Cultural Defence 26: Andrzej Jakubowski: Cultural Rights and Cultural Heritage as a Global Concern 27: Faris Nasrallah: Alternative Dispute Resolution 28: Richard A. Wilson: Justice after Atrocity 29: Marie-Claire Foblets: Kinship through the Twofold Prism of Law and Anthropology 30: Dirk Hanschel, Elizabeth Steyn: Environmental Justice Anthropology at the limits of law 31: Felix-Anselm van Lier, Katrin Seidel: Constitution Making 32: Jennifer Burrell: Vigilantism and Security-making 33: Math Noortmann, Juliette Koning: The Normative Complexity of Private Security: Beyond legal regulation and stigmatization 34: Erica Bornstein: Humanitarian Interventions 35: Rita Kesselring: Inequality, Victimhood, and Redress 36: Katayoun Alidadi: Anti-discrimination Rules and Religious Minorities in the Workplace 37: Priscilla Claeys, Karine Peschard: Transnational Agrarian Movements, Food Sovereignty, and Legal Mobilization 38: Rachel Sieder: The Juridification of Politics 39: Meg Davis: The Persistence of Chinese Rights Defenders Current directions in law & anthropology 40: Sally Engle Merry: The Problem of Compliance and the Turn to Quantification 41: Bert Turner, Melanie Wiber: Law, Science, and Technologies 42: Olaf Zenker: Politics of Belonging 43: Katia Bianchini: Legal and Anthropological Approaches to International Refugee Law 44: Philipp Dann, Julia Eckert: Norm Creation Beyond the State 45: Didier Fassin: Critique of Punitive Reason 46: Maria Sapignoli, Ronald Niezen: Global Legal Institutions 47: Annelise Riles, Ralf Michaels: Law as Technique 48: Kamari Clarke: Emotion, Affect, and Law 49: Eve Darian-Smith: Legal Pluralism in Postcolonial, Postnational, and Postdemocratic Contexts
