Legal anthropology

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Legal anthropology is a sub-sub-discipline of anthropology which studies conflict management in cultures around the world. Carol Greenhouse describes legal anthropology as "the cross-cultural study of social ordering".[1] Malinowski’s 1926 work, Crime and Custom in Savage Society, law, order, crime, and punishment are explored among the Trobriand Islanders.[2] Further early works by anthropologists on the topic of law include Henry Sumner Maine’s 1861 work, Ancient Law, and Lewis Henry Morgan’s 1877 work, Ancient Society.[3]

Similar to those interested in Medical Anthropology, a number of Legal Anthropologists hold both Juris Doctors and advanced degrees in anthropology. Some use this background to do applied work such as Allen C. Turner, Ph.D., J.D.[4]

If looking for Anthropology departments with faculty specializing in legal anthropology, try the following schools and professors: University of California, Berkely (Laura Nader), University of Chicago (John Comaroff), Duke University (William M. O'Barr), Indiana University (Carol J. Greenhouse), Princeton University (Lawrence Rosen), Stanford University (Jane F. Collier, James Lowell Gibbs Jr.)[5], Cornell University (Annelise Riles).


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  1. ^ Greenhouse, Carol J. (1986). Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 28. 
  2. ^ Malinowski, Bronislaw 1985[1926] Crime and Custom in Savage Society. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld.
  3. ^ Moore, Sally Falk 2005 Law and Anthropology: A Reader. Sally Falk Moore, ed. Pp. 20-25. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell.
  4. ^ Allen C. Turner, Applied Legal Anthropology
  5. ^ Disciplines & Subdisciplines- Legal Anthropology


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