Ethnography and Law

Eve Darian-Smith is Professor and Department Chair in Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Part I Historical Contexts and Postcolonial Realities: Certainties undone: 50 turbulent years of legal anthropology, 1949-1999, Sally Falk Moore; History, power, ideology and culture: current directions in the anthropology of law, Peter Just; 'Let them eat cake': globalization, postmodern colonialism and the possibilities of justice, Susan S. Silbey; Legal claims to culture in and against the market: neoliberalism and the global proliferation of meaningful difference, Rosemary J. Coombe. Part II New Ethnographic Subjects and Methodologies: Crossing boundaries: ethnography in the 21st century, Sally Engle Merry; Doorwork and legal risk: observations from an embodied ethnography, Lee F. Monaghan; Naming resistance: ethnographers, dissidents, and states, Susan Bibler Coutin and Susan F. Hirsch; Real time: unwinding technocratic and anthropological knowledge, Annelise Riles; Caring and being cared for: displacing marriage, kinship, gender and sexuality, John Borneman. Part III Narratives of Law: Rhetoric, Performance and Imagery: A conversation with Tibetans? Reconsidering the relationship between religious beliefs and secular legal discourse, Rebecca R. French; Globalization and the decline of legal consciousness: torts, ghosts, and karma in Thailand, David M. Engel; Imagining the law of the father: loss, dread, and mourning in The Sweet Hereafter, Austin Sarat; Narrating social structure: stories of resistance to legal authority, Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey. Part IV States, Rights, Violence and Constructing Legal Subjectivity: Losing (out on) intellectual resources, Marilyn Strathern; Criminal justice, cultural justice: the limits of liberalism and the pragmatics of difference in the new South Africa John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff; Mothercraft, statecraft and subjectivity in the Palestinian intifada, Iris Jean-Klein; Limiting indigenous autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico: the state government's use of human rights, Shannon Sp