The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology is a ground-breaking collection of essays that provides an original and internationally framed conception of the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic interconnections of law and anthropology. Each of the chapters in the Handbook provides a survey of the current state of scholarly debate and an argument about the future direction of research in this dynamic and interdisciplinary field. The structure of the Handbook is animated by an overarching collective narrative about how law and anthropology have and should relate to each other as intersecting domains of inquiry that address such fundamental questions as dispute resolution, normative ordering, social organization, and legal, political, and social identity.

The need for such a comprehensive project has become even more pressing as lawyers and anthropologists work together in an ever-increasing number of areas, including immigration and asylum processes, international justice forums, cultural heritage certification and monitoring, and the writing of new national constitutions, among many others. The Handbook takes critical stock of these various points of intersection in order to identify and conceptualize the most promising areas of innovation and sociolegal relevance, as well as to acknowledge the points of tension, open questions, and areas for future development.

Global perspectives on law & anthropology
1. Social Control through Law: Critical afterlives, Carol Greenhouse
2. Anthropology, Law, and Empire: Foundations in context, Martin Chanock
3. South African Legal Culture and its Dis/empowerment Paradox, Sindiso Mnisi Weeks
4. The Ethnographic Gaze on State Law in India, Pratiksha Baxi
5. The Anthropology of Indigenous Australia and Native Title Claims, Paul Burke
6. Encountering Indigenous Law in Canada, Brian Thom
7. Russian Legal Anthropology: From empirical ethnography to applied innovation, Florian Stammler, Aytalina Ivanova, and Brian Donahoe
8. Indigenous Peoples, Identity, and Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation in Latin America, Armando Guevara Gil
9. Rule of Law and Media in the Making of Legal Identity in Urban Southern China, Do Dom Kim
10. Islam, Law, and the State, Dominik Müller
11. Law and Anthropology in the Netherlands: From Adat Law School to Anthropology of Law, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
12. Legal Uses of Anthropology in France in the 19th and 20th centuries, Frédéric Audren and Laetitia Guerlain
13. Legal Ethnology and Legal Anthropology in Hungary, Balacz Fekete
14. The Anthropology of European Law, Michele Graziadei
Recurring themes in law and anthropology
15. Within and Beyond the Anthropology of Language and Law, Elizabeth Mertz
16. Law as an Enduring Concept: Space, time, and power, Anne Griffiths
17. Legalism: Rules, categories, and texts, Fernanda Pirie
18. Legal Transfer, Günter Frankenberg
19. Legal Traditions, Thomas Duve
20. The Concept of Positive Law and its Relationship to Religion and Morality, Baudouin Dupret
21. Property Regimes, Matthew Canfield
22. Law and Development, Markus Böckenförde, Berihun Gebeye
23. Rights and Social Inclusion, Mark Goodale
24. Human Rights Activism, Sexuality, and Gender, Lynette Chua
Anthropology in law and legal practice
25. The Cultural Defence, Alison Dundes Renteln
26. Cultural Rights and Cultural Heritage as a Global Concern, Andrzej Jakubowski
27. Alternative Dispute Resolution, Faris Nasrallah
28. Justice after Atrocity, Richard A. Wilson
29. Kinship through the Twofold Prism of Law and Anthropology, Marie-Claire Foblets
30. Environmental Justice, Dirk Hanschel, Elizabeth Steyn
Anthropology at the limits of law
31. Constitution Making, Felix-Anselm van Lier, Katrin Seidel
32. Vigilantism and Security-making, Jennifer Burrell
33. The Normative Complexity of Private Security: Beyond legal regulation and stigmatization, Math Noortmann, Juliette Koning
34. Humanitarian Interventions, Erica Bornstein
35. Inequality, Victimhood, and Redress, Rita Kesselring
36. Anti-discrimination Rules and Religious Minorities in the Workplace, Katayoun Alidadi
37. Transnational Agrarian Movements, Food Sovereignty, and Legal Mobilization, Priscilla Claeys, Karine Peschard
38. The Juridification of Politics, Rachel Sieder
39. The Persistence of Chinese Rights Defenders, Meg Davis
Current directions in law & anthropology
40. The Problem of Compliance and the Turn to Quantification, Sally Engle Merry
41. Law, Science, and Technologies, Bert Turner, Melanie Wiber
42. Politics of Belonging, Olaf Zenker
43. Legal and Anthropological Approaches to International Refugee Law, Katia Bianchini
44. Norm Creation Beyond the State, Philipp Dann, Julia Eckert
45. Critique of Punitive Reason, Didier Fassin
46. Global Legal Institutions, Maria Sapignoli, Ronald Niezen
47. Law as Technique, Annelise Riles, Ralf Michaels
48. Emotion, Affect, and Law, Kamari Clarke
49. Legal Pluralism in Postcolonial, Postnational, and Postdemocratic Contexts, Eve Darian-Smith