Contents
Acknowledgments;
About the Contributors;
Introduction: Mapping the Field of Law and Anthropology;
Part I Global Perspectives on Law and Anthropology;
1. Social Control through Law: Critical Afterlives;
2. Anthropology, Law, and Empire: Foundations in Context;
3. South African Legal Culture and Its Dis/Empowerment Paradox;
4. The Ethnographic Gaze on State Law in India;
5. The Anthropology of Indigenous Australia and Native Title Claims;
6. Encountering Indigenous Law in Canada;
7. Russian Legal Anthropology: From Empirical Ethnography to Applied Innovation;
8. Indigenous Peoples, Identity, and Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation in Latin America;
9. Rule of Law and Media in the Making of Legal Identity in Urban Southern China;
10. Islam, Law, and the State;
11 Law and Anthropology in the Netherlands: From Adat Law School to Anthropology of Law;
12. Legal Uses of Anthropology in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries;
13. Legal Ethnology and Legal Anthropology in Hungary;
14. The Anthropology of European Law;
Part II Recurring Themes in Law and Anthropology;
15. Within and Beyond the Anthropology of Language and Law;
16. Law as an Enduring Concept: Space, Time, and Power;
17. Legalism: Rules, Categories, and Texts;
18. Legal Transfer;
19. Legal Traditions;
20. The Concept of Positive Law and Its Relationship to Religion and Morality;
21. Property Regimes;
22. Law & Development;
23. Rights and Social Inclusion;
24. Human Rights Activism, Sexuality, and Gender;
Part III Anthropology in Law and Legal Practice;
25. The Cultural Defence;
26. Cultural Rights and Cultural Heritage as a Global Concern;
27. Alternative Dispute Resolution;
28. Justice after Atrocity;
29. Kinship through the Twofold Prism of Law and Anthropology;
30. Environmental Justice;
Part IV Anthropology at the Limits of Law;
31. Constitution-Making;
32. Vigilantism and Security-Making;
33. The Normative Complexity of Private Security: Beyond Legal Regulation and Stigmatization;
34. Humanitarian Interventions;
35. Inequality, Victimhood, and Redress;
36. Anti-discrimination Rules and Religious Minorities in the Workplace;
37. Transnational Agrarian Movements, Food Sovereignty, and Legal Mobilization;
38. The Juridification of Politics;
39. The Persistence of Chinese Rights Defenders;
Part V Current Directions in Law and Anthropology;
40. The Problem of Compliance and the Turn to Quantification;
41. Law, Science, and Technologies;
42. Politics of Belonging;
43. Legal and Anthropological Approaches to International Refugee Law;
44. Norm Creation beyond the State;
45. Critique of Punitive Reason;
46. Global Legal Institutions;
47. Law as Technique;
48. Emotion, Affect, and Law;
49. Legal Pluralism in Postcolonial, Postnational, and Postdemocratic Times;
Index