Concept information
Preferred term
anthropology of law
Definition(s)
- The anthropology of law studies legal systems, law, and law-like social phenomena and takes as its foundation the anthropological insight that law cannot be meaningfully understood apart from wider culture and society. Although there have always been diverse schools of thought within the anthropology of law regarding appropriate goals, theories, epistemologies, and sometimes even methods, scholars in this area share a commitment to intensive and rigorous field methodologies requiring extensive involvement in the communities and social fields under study. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Anthropology of Law]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- alternative dispute resolution
- alternative law
- apology and pardon
- bride burning
- bride capture
- conciliation
- conflict
- cultural defense
- custom and law
- customary legal norms
- customary legal norms in india
- customs of inheritance
- customs of land tenure
- customs of wrongs
- dispute avoidance
- dowry customs
- emergence of social norms
- female genital mutilation
- gift exchange
- kingship and chieftaincy
- kinship
- law and language
- legal pluralism
- legal systems of aboriginal and indigenous peoples
- matrimonial prestation
- mediation
- mediation in china
- negotiation
- polygamy
- private legal systems
- social and legal evolution
- son preference
- violence and justice
- witchcraft
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VMBG7MGQ-3
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