Law and Anthropology
About the Book Series
The series is intended as a forum for the publication of outstanding scholarly contributions that strive systematically to involve both lawyers and anthropologists in the study, thinking, and theorizing about the search for justice in contemporary societies. It seeks to give equal weight to anthropological scholarship on the functioning of non-state normative orders – often existing side-by-side with formal state law – and legal scholarship dealing with the pragmatics of practice in a wide variety of circumstances where different normative logics come into conflict with one another.
The series welcomes work that analyses not only the relevant legal sources, but also the ethnographic data that can help provide context and an empirical foundation in the search for concrete solutions. Studies that draw on the methods and conceptual frameworks of anthropology, while staying within the boundaries of the technical and doctrinal tools that the law makes available, are rare. The series offers a venue for nourishing such endeavours and provides the academic anchorage for anthropologists and legal scholars who are straddling the two disciplines to meet, exchange views, and further develop their ideas and analyses.
African Witchcraft and Global Asylum-Seeking: Border-Crossing Beliefs
1st Edition
By Katherine Luongo
November 28, 2024
This book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North – Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom – have engaged with allegations about witchcraft-driven violence made by asylum seekers coming from Anglophone countries ...
Anthropological Expertise and Legal Practice: In Conversation
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie-Claire Foblets, Maria Sapignoli, Brian Donahoe
June 05, 2024
This book draws on concrete cases of collaboration between anthropologists and legal practitioners to critically assess the use of anthropological expertise in a variety of legal contexts from the point of view of the anthropologist as well as of the decision-maker or legal practitioner. The ...
Redesigning Justice for Plural Societies: Case Studies of Minority Accommodation from around the Globe
1st Edition
Edited
By Katayoun Alidadi, Marie-Claire Foblets, Dominik Müller
May 27, 2024
This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise, under state law. The collection presents selected situations and experiences from a variety of regions and from different legal traditions around the world in ...