Law and Anthropology (2nd Edition)

Description

Now in its second edition, this important book offers one of the first systematic exploration of the entire field of law and anthropology. The book combines more practical, applied approaches to the study of law and anthropology with more cultural and theoretical ones. Drawing on historical and literary sources of cultural anthropology, it focuses primarily on questions of the law, but also explores economic, political and religious issues.

Author Biography

Wolfgang Fikentscher has taught and still teaches the anthropology of law in Berkeley and Munich. He has carried out ethnographic fieldwork among Native Americans, notably Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona and has visited Taiwanese aborigines (Paiwan, Rukai, Atayal) and some Eastern European and near and far Eastern cultures.