Anthropology 417: Cross-Cultural Law
Readings and Resources

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Suggested References for Research Project

Anleu, S. L. R. 2000. Law and Social Change. London: Sage publications.

Aromand, Said Amir. 1989. Constitution-Making in Islamic Iran: The Impact of Theocracy on the Legal Order of a Nation-State. In Starr & Collier, eds., 1989, 113-30.

Auerbach, J. S. 1983. Justice without Law? New York: Oxford University Press.

Bohannan, Paul. 1957. Justice and Judgment Among the Tiv. London: Oxford Univ. Press.

Bohannan, Paul. 1965. The Differing Realms of Law. 67(6) American Anthropologist pt. 2, 33-42. Reprinted in Rokumoto, ed., 1994, 185-94.

Bourdieu, P. 1987. The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field. 38 Hastings Law Review 805-53.

Chunn, Dorothy, and Dany Lacombe, eds. 2000. Law as a Gendering Practice. New York: Oxford University Press.

Collier, Jane F. 1973. Law and Social Change in Zincantan. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.

Epstein, A. L. 1973. The Reasonable Man Revisited: Some Problems in the Anthropology of Law. 7 Law and Society Review 643-66.

French, Rebecca R. 1996. Of Narrative in Law and Anthropology. 30 Law and Society Review 417.

Gluckman, Max. 1965. Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society. Chicago: Aldine Gluckman, Max. 1974. African Traditional Law in Historical Perspective. London: Oxford University Press.

Gulliver, P. H. 1979. Disputes and Negotiations: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. New York: Academic Press.

Hamnett, Ian, ed. 1977. Social Anthropology and Law. New York: Academic Press.

Harris, Olivia, ed. 1996. Inside and Outside the Law: Anthropological Studies of Authority and Ambiguity. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Jones, D. Gareth, and Robyn J. Harris. 1998. Archaeological Human Remains: Scientific, Cultural, and Ethical Considerations. 39 Current Anthropology 253-64.

Llewellyn, Karl, and E. Adamson Hoebel. 1941. The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence. Norman: U. of Oklahoma Press.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1926. Crime and Custom in Savage Society. London: Routledge & Kegan

Moore, Sally F. 1978. Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Mundy, Martha, ed. 2002. Law and Anthropology. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing.

Nader, Laura. 1965. The Anthropological Study of Law. 67(6) American Anthropologist pt. 2, 3-32. Reprinted in Sack and Aleck, eds., 1992, 3-32.

Nader, Laura, ed. 1969. Law in Culture and Society. Berkeley: University of California Press [1997 paperback reprint].

Nader, Laura. 1990. Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village. Palo Alto: Stanford Univ. Press.

Nader, Laura. 1997. Controlling Processes: Tracing the Dynamic Components of Power. 38 Current Anthropology 711-37.

Nader, Laura. 2002. The Life of the Law: Anthropological Projects. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Nader, Laura, and Harry Todd, eds. 1978. The Disputing Process: Law in Ten Societies. New York: Columbia University Press.

Rosen, Lawrence. 1977. The Anthropologist as Expert Witness. 79(3) American Anthropologist 555-78. Reprinted in Sack and Aleck, eds., 1992, 499-522.

Rosen, Lawrence. 1989. The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Islamic Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sack, Peter, and Jonathon Aleck, eds. 1992. Law and Anthropology. New York: New York Univ. Press.

Smart, Carol. 1989. Feminism and the Power of Law. London: Routledge

Snyder, Francis G. 1981. Anthropology, Dispute Processes and Law: A Critical Introduction. 8(2) British Journal of Law and Society 141-80.

Tannen, Deborah. 1998. The Argument Culture. New York: Random House.

Urtega-Crovetto, P. 1999. Territorial Rights and Indigenous Law: An Alternative Approach. In Assies et al., eds., 1999, 275 White, James B. 1990. Justice as Translation: An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Wilson, Richard A., ed. 1997. Human Rights, Culture and Context: Anthropological Perspectives. London: Pluto Press.

Wilson, Richard A. 2000. Reconciliation and Revenge in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Rethinking Legal Pluralism and Human Rights. 41 Current Anthropology 75-98. Reprinted in Mundy, ed., 2002, 375-398.

Wright, Robin M. 1988. Anthropological Presuppositions of Indigenous Advocacy. 17 Annual Review of Anthropology 365-90.

Yngvesson, Barbara. 1976. Responses to Grievance Behavior: Extended Cases in a Fishing Community. 3(2) American Ethnologist 353-73.

Subject Matter Journals

The journals listed below publish many articles of interest to this topic area. One should also use the available law review search engines, such as Lexis and Westlaw, to search for interdisciplinary studies published in law reviews and policy journals.

Internet Resources

Associations

American Anthropological Association, Human Rights:
http://www.aaanet.org/committees/cfhr/index.htm

American Anthropological Association, Issues related to Minority Groups and Race:
http://www.aaanet.org/committees/minority/index.htm

American Anthropological Association, Public Policy Issues:
http://www.aaanet.org/gvt/index.htm

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology:
http://www.aaanet.org/apla/index.htm

Law and Society Association:
http://www.lawandsociety.org/

Cultural Survival:
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/

Association for Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities:
http://www.en.utexas.edu/aslch/index.htm

Law and Anthropology

Social Science Gateway -- Legal Systems, Moral Codes and Anthropology:
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/anthrolegal.html

Issues in the Anthropology of Law:
http://www.univie.ac.at/recht-religion/ra_konzept_en.htm

Law and Anthropology resources:
http://home1.gte.net/ericjw1/law.html

Law and Social Inquiry Journal:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/LSI/

Law and Society Review:
http://www.lawandsociety.org/review.htm

Yale Journal of Law & Humanities archives:
http://www.yale.edu/yjlh/archives.htm

Cultural Heritage Laws:
http://www.archeodroit.net/anthro/Texts/law.html

Chronology and Resources of Legal Anthropology:
http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/legal.htm

Sociology of Law:
http://www.kun.nl/vsr/links.html

U. Buffalo, Law and Social Policy Working Papers:
http://www.law.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/workingpaper.html

Max Plank Institute Working Papers:
http://www.eth.mpg.de/

International Human Rights Resources:
http://web.amnesty.org/web/links.nsf/nonAIsites!OpenView

Some related, online bibliographies:
http://www.indiana.edu/~iascp/subbibs.html

Bibliography on Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge and Institutions:
http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/wsl/indig2003.html

Law and Economics resources:
http://lawecon.lp.findlaw.com/index.html

Ernst Fehr's Research on Fairness and Reciprocity:
http://www.iew.unizh.ch/home/fehr/publications_3.html

Social Science Research Network:
http://www.ssrn.com/

Anthropological databases (through UT library online):
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/a.html

Sociology Databases (through UT library online):
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/s.html

JSTOR (through UT library online):
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/j.html

General Legal Studies Resources

U.S. Supreme Court web site:
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/index.html

Hermes Supreme Court Collection:
http://supct.law.cornell.edu:8080/supct/

Oyez project:
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage

U.S. Federal Courts Finder:
http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS/

U.S. Code Search:
http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm

Famous American Trials:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

A Century of Lawmaking (Library of Congress, American Memory):
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

Yale's Avalon Project:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Lexis-Nexis:
http://www.lexis-nexis.com/lncc/

Westlaw:
http://www.westlaw.com/

Basic Legal Citation:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/

Law.com:
http://www.law.com/

Law Libraries gateway:
http://www.libraryspot.com/lawlibraries.htm

FindLaw:
http://www.findlaw.com/

 

 

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