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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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