Description:
This Reader offers a remarkable overview of the field of law and anthropology: its development, present, and potential future courses.
- Edited by a preeminent anthropologist, lawyer, and pioneer in the study of law & anthropology.
- Brings together classics of political thought and key contemporary work from social scientists and lawyers.
- Explores historical issues and more contemporary ones such as illegal migration, human rights, gender discrimination, political corruption, and reparations for injustices committed by previous regimes.
Review Quotes: "Sally Falk Moore's insightful commentary pulls together a delightful combination of the classics and the cutting edge in legal anthropology. This book is both evidence of and an important event in the story of the re-emergence of legal anthropology as a powerful source of critical inquiry both in law and in anthropology." Bryant Garth, Director, American Bar Foundation
"Law and Anthropology: A Reader has been assembled with consummate intelligence and a magisterial knowledge of legal anthropology by one of its most respected scholars, Sally Falk Moore. It brings together some of the most influential, most challenging, most insightful texts in a field that, for good historical reasons, is undergoing a welcome, exciting renaissance. A must-read collection of writings." John Comaroff, University of Chicago