Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction Contributor(s): Goodale, Mark (Author), Merry, Sally Engle (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1479836133 ISBN-13: 9781479836130 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Law |
Dewey: 340.115 |
LCCN: 2016041138 |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.30 lbs) 320 pages |
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Publisher Description: An introduction to the anthropology of law that explores the connections between law, politics, and technology |
Contributor Bio(s): Goodale, Mark: - Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne. Previously, he was Professor of Conflict Studies and Anthropology at George Mason University and the first Marjorie Shostak Distinguished Lecturer in Anthropology at Emory University. He is the author of Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford UP, 2009) and Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford UP, 2008) and the editor or coeditor of eleven other volumes on anthropology, human rights, legal pluralism, justice, Latin American politics and society, and methodology. The founding Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights, he is currently writing a book about revolution, ideology, and law in Bolivia based on several years of ethnographic research funded by the US National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.Merry, Sally Engle: - Sally Engle Merry is Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University. |