."..essential reading for scholars interested in understanding
sociopolitical change under globalization in the early 21st
century...I recommend this volume] for advanced undergraduate and
graduate courses in legal anthropology, political anthropology, the
anthropology of the state, and globalization. Several chapters
could also be creatively woven into courses on the anthropology of
religion." PoLAR
."..there is much common ground between the contributors, and
the variety of contexts and situations are valuable for showing how
the unifying themes... work out on different grounds." Journal of
Legal Pluralism
"This fascinating collection of articles sheds new light on the
way law exercises power in a transnational world, from the crises
of terrorism to the subtle introduction of new law within
development projects. This set of articles provides new evidence of
the important insights offered by legal pluralism and
anthropological methodologies for understanding the nature of
transnational, national, and local systems of law." Sally Engle
Merry, New York University
How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to
construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question
as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured through social
processes that frame both its continuity and transformation over
time. The volume highlights how power is deployed under conditions
of legal pluralism, exploring its effects on livelihoods and on
social institutions, including the state. Such an approach not only
demonstrates how the state, through its various development
programs and organizational structures, attempts to control
territory and people, but also relates the mechanisms of state
control to other legal modes of control and regulation at both
local and supranational levels.
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann is head of the Project Group Legal
Pluralism at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in
Halle, Germany. She also is an honorary professor in Leipzig and
Halle. Her research in Indonesia and the Netherlands focuses on
legal pluralism, social security, governance and on the role of
religion in disputing processes.
Franz von Benda-Beckmann is head of the Project Group Legal
Pluralism at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in
Halle, Germany. He also is an honorary professor in Leipzig and
Halle. His research in Malawi and Indonesia focuses on property and
inheritance, social security, governance and legal anthropological
theory.
Anne Griffiths has a personal chair in Anthropology of Law at
the University of Edinburgh in the School of Law. Her major
research interests include anthropology of law, comparative and
family law, African law, gender, culture and rights. She has been
awarded research grants from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research
Council), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
(USA), the Annenberg Foundation (USA), the British Academy, the
Leverhulme Trust, the Commonwealth Foundation, the Carnegie Trust
and the American Bar Foundation.
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