{"product_id":"anthropology-and-law-a-critical-introduction-9781479895519","title":"Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn introduction to the anthropology of law that explores the connections between law, politics, and technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom legal responsibility for genocide to rectifying past injuries to indigenous people, the anthropology of law addresses some of the crucial ethical issues of our day. Over the past twenty-five years, anthropologists have studied how new forms of law have reshaped important questions of citizenship, biotechnology, and rights movements, among many others. Meanwhile, the rise of international law and transitional justice has posed new ethical and intellectual challenges to anthropologists. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnthropology and Law\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of law in the post-Cold War era. Mark Goodale introduces the central problems of the field and builds on the legacy of its intellectual history, while a foreword by Sally Engle Merry highlights the challenges of using the law to seek justice on an international scale. The book's chapters cover a range of intersecting areas including language and law, history, regulation, indigenous rights, and gender. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor a complete understanding of the consequential ways in which anthropologists have studied, interacted with, and critiqued, the ways and means of law, \u003ci\u003eAnthropology and Law \u003c\/i\u003eis required reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Goodale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479895519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoodale, Mark:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMark Goodale\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne. Previously, he was Professor of Conflict Studies and Anthropology at George Mason University and the first Marjorie Shostak Distinguished Lecturer in Anthropology at Emory University. He is the author of Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford UP, 2009) and Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford UP, 2008) and the editor or coeditor of eleven other volumes on anthropology, human rights, legal pluralism, justice, Latin American politics and society, and methodology. The founding Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights, he is currently writing a book about revolution, ideology, and law in Bolivia based on several years of ethnographic research funded by the US National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMerry, Sally Engle:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eSally Engle Merry \u003c\/b\u003eis Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45254397165683,"sku":"9781479895519","price":65.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_9a29b7a2-4813-4b74-819f-2d78af6e0c68.jpg?v=1784203988","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/anthropology-and-law-a-critical-introduction-9781479895519","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}