Anthropology and law : a critical introduction / Mark Goodale ; foreword by Sally Engle Merry. - New York : New York University Press, [2017] - xv, 290 pages ; 24 cm
Includes references and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-276) and index.
Introduction : from status to contract to cosmopolitanism -- Speaking the law -- History, heritage, and legal Mythoi -- Justice between the devil and the deep blue sea -- Human rights and the politics of aspiration -- Shaping inclusion and exclusion through law -- Law and the Fourth world -- Law and the moral economy of gender -- Ethnonationalism and conflict transformation -- Conclusion : law in a post-utopian world.