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Author:   Alice Margaria (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) ,  Larissa Vetters (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
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9781032118550

ISBN 10:   1032118555
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

‘Exceptionally curated and framed, Leading Works in Law and Anthropology re-charts in an incredibly productive way the rich and globalised terrain where law and anthropology meet today. An unmissable contribution for legal scholars, legal practitioners, and anthropologists who understand each other as, always situated, intellectual peers.’ Luis Eslava, La Trobe University and University of Kent ‘Leading Works in Law and Anthropology simultaneously introduces the anthropology of law through a selection of key works and imagines how the field might be reconceptualized to better reflect its breathtaking range. Its novel approach –a collection of perspectives on perspectives –will be equally invaluable for the expert and the novice.’ Deepa Das Acevedo, Emory Law. ‘Leading Works in Law and Anthropology is a remarkably innovative and yet immensely practical guide to some of the more important works in the field, introduced and contextualized by a diverse group of scholars. Alice Margaria and Larissa Vetters have done a tremendous service in assembling such a useful volume, which should become essential reading for researchers, students, and others interested in the dynamic relationship between law and anthropology.’ Mark Goodale, University of Oxford and University of Lausanne

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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.

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