Leading Works in Law and Anthropology

Alice Margaria is assistant professor of law and co-director of the University Research Priority Program ‘Human Reproduction Reloaded’ at the University of Zurich. Larissa Vetters is senior researcher in the Department ‘Law & Anthropology’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.

List of Contributors ix Acknowledgements xi List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xii Foreword: Leading Works, but in an Unexpected Sense xiii MARIE-CLAIRE FOBLETS 1 ‘Law and Anthropology’ as Interdisciplinary Encounter: Towards Multi-sited, Situated Knowledge Production 1 LARISSA VETTERS AND ALICE MARGARIA 2 Law Is a Multilevel Cultural Universal: The Theoretical Achievements of Leopold Pospisil’s Anthropology of Law 28 JAMES M. DONOVAN AND TOMAŠ LEDVINKA 3 Law’s Boundaries: Barbara Yngvesson’s Virtuous Citizens, Disruptive Subjects, and the Construction of Community in the Margins of Law 49 SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN 4 Unveiling ‘Everyday Harm’: Mindie Lazarus-Black’s Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation 66 RAMONA BIHOLAR 5 The European Court of Human Rights, Upending Migrant Rights: On Marie-Bénédicte Dembour’s When Humans Become Migrants 90 MORITZ BAUMGARTEL 6 Challenging the Depiction of Black Families Under Welfare Legislation in the USA: Carol Stack on All Our Kin 112 ANNE GRIFFITHS 7 Constitutional Law as Moral Insurgency?: Reflections on Kalpana Kannabiran’s Tools of Justice 130 SANDHYA FUCHS 8 A Shout in the Cathedral: Elizabeth Mertz’s The Language of Law School 150 RIAZ TEJANI9 Turning Legal Doctrine Inside Out: Susanne Baer’s The Citizen in Administrative Law 167 LARISSA VETTERS 10 The Moving of Children, the Travelling of Law: Howell’s The Kinning Of Foreigners 192 NOLA CAMMU 11 A French Private International Law Perspective on ‘Alterity’: Horatia Muir Watt’s Discours sur les méthodes du droit international privé (Des formes juridiques de l’inter-altérité) 209 SANDRINE BRACHOTTE Index 227