Established and emerging scholars discuss their chosen 'leading work' in the field of law and sociocultural anthropology. They shed light on changes in cross-disciplinary research, trace how disciplinary understandings of normativity have cross-fertilized each other, and reflect on choices taken within research on law and anthropology.

The academic disciplines of law and sociocultural anthropology have a long but at times contentious history of drawing on each other in order to study and understand law and human experience in its diverse manifestations. This volume provides an innovative and engaging format by giving established and emerging scholars from diverse jurisdictions the opportunity to discuss and reflect upon what they consider to be a 'leading work'. The collection offers a unique, multi-perspectival reconsideration of the intellectual history of the field whilst also addressing issues that are at the core of interdisciplinary legal research. Contributions shed light on the changing nature of cross-disciplinary research and collaboration, trace how disciplinary understandings of normativity have cross-fertilised each other, and reflect on choices taken within research on law and anthropology along a continuum of theoretical reflection, critique, engagement, and practical application. The book elaborates on the nature and the boundaries of law and anthropology research, as well as on its likely future development in light of the insights shared by contributors on their chosen leading works. The book will make fascinating reading for researchers and academics in both law and anthropology.

Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Autorentext

Alice Margaria is assistant professor of law and co-director of the University Research Priority Program 'Human Reproduction Reloaded' at the University of Zurich.

Larissa Vetters is senior researcher in the Department 'Law & Anthropology' at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.

Klappentext

Established and emerging scholars discuss their chosen 'leading work' in the field of law and sociocultural anthropology. They shed light on changes in cross-disciplinary research, trace how disciplinary understandings of normativity have cross-fertilized each other, and reflect on choices taken within research on law and anthropology.

Inhalt

List of Contributors ix Acknowledgements xi List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xii Foreword: Leading Works, but in an Unexpected Sense xiii MARIE-CLAIRE FOBLETS 1 'Law and Anthropology' as Interdisciplinary Encounter: Towards Multi-sited, Situated Knowledge Production 1 LARISSA VETTERS AND ALICE MARGARIA 2 Law Is a Multilevel Cultural Universal: The Theoretical Achievements of Leopold Pospisil's Anthropology of Law 28 JAMES M. DONOVAN AND TOMA LEDVINKA 3 Law's Boundaries: Barbara Yngvesson's Virtuous Citizens, Disruptive Subjects, and the Construction of Community in the Margins of Law 49 SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN 4 Unveiling 'Everyday Harm': Mindie Lazarus-Black's Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation 66 RAMONA BIHOLAR 5 The European Court of Human Rights, Upending Migrant Rights: On Marie-Bénédicte Dembour's When Humans Become Migrants 90 MORITZ BAUMGARTEL 6 Challenging the Depiction of Black Families Under Welfare Legislation in the USA: Carol Stack on All Our Kin 112 ANNE GRIFFITHS 7 Constitutional Law as Moral Insurgency?: Reflections on Kalpana Kannabiran's Tools of Justice 130 SANDHYA FUCHS 8 A Shout in the Cathedral: Elizabeth Mertz's The Language of Law School 150 RIAZ TEJANI9 Turning Legal Doctrine Inside Out: Susanne Baer's The Citizen in Administrative Law 167 LARISSA VETTERS 10 The Moving of Children, the Travelling of Law: Howell's The Kinning Of Foreigners 192 NOLA CAMMU 11 A French Private International Law Perspective on 'Alterity': Horatia Muir Watt's Discours sur les méthodes du droit international privé (Des formes juridiques de l'inter-altérité) 209 SANDRINE BRACHOTTE Index 227