History and Power in the Study of Law
New Directions in Legal Anthropology
History and Power in the Study of Law
New Directions in Legal Anthropology
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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...
History and Power in the Study of Law will serve as a valuable touchstone for anthropologists and other scholars interested in the light that anthropological perspectives shed on our understanding of law.
The late June Starr was Professor of Law at Indiana University. She was the author of Dispute and Settlement in Rural Turkey: An Ethnography of Law and Law as Metaphor: From Islamic Courts to the Palace of Justice. Jane F. Collier is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Emerita, at Stanford University.