Table of Contents

Michael Freeman and David Napier: General Editors' Preface
Michael Freeman and David Napier: Introduction: Law and Anthropology
1: Franz von Benda-Beckmann: Riding or Killing the Centaur? Reflections on the Identities of Legal Anthropology
2: Carol J Greenhouse: Law and Anthropology: Old Relations, New Relativities
3: Christoph Eberhard: Law and Anthropology in a "Glocal " World: The Challenge of Dialogue
4: Annelise Riles: Cultural Conflicts
5: Rebecca R French: Ethnography in Ordinary Case Law
6: Fernanda Pirie: From Tribal Tibet: The Significance of the Legal Form
7: Anne Griffiths: Anthropological Perspectives on Legal Pluralism and Governance in a Transnational World
8: Elizabeth Cassell: Anthropologists In The Canadian Courts
9: Erika J Techera: Legal Foundations for the Recognition of Customary Law in the Post-Colonial South Pacific
10: Maria Sapignoli: Indigeneity and the Expert: Negotiating Identity in the Case of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve
11: Allen Abramson: The Lie of the Land: Suturing the Jural and the Ritual in Fiji, Western Pacific
12: Caroline Plançon: The Role of Social Representations in the Production and Application of the Law: A Case Study of Property Law in Senegal
13: Claudia Ituarte-Lima: Categories of Intellectual Property and Biodiversity in Western Inspired Legal Cultures
14: Steven Wheatley: Indigenous Peoples and the Right of Political Autonomy in an Age of Global Legal Pluralism
15: Sally Engle Merry: Relating to the Subjects of Human Rights: The Culture of Agency in Human Rights Discourse
16: Samia Bano: Multicultural Interlegality? Negotiating Family Law in the Context of Muslim Legal Pluralism in the UK
17: Richard Abel: Professional Integrity
18: Marie-Andrée Jacob: Discipline Exchange on Swaps
19: Robin Mackenzie: Bestia Sacer and Agamben's Anthropological Machine: Biomedical/Legal Taxonomies as Somatechnologies of Human and Nonhuman Animals' Ethico-Political Relations
20: Françoise Lauwaert: Framing The Family in Late Imperial China: An Anthropological Glance at Some Family Cases in the Conspectus of Penal Cases (Xing'an huilan)
21: Malcolm Voyce: The Rules of Buddhist Monks: Issues of Property and Pollution

About the Author

Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law at University College London and is the series editor for Current Legal Issues.

David Napier is Professor of Anthropology at University College London.