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Legal anthropology, also known as the anthropology of laws, is a sub-discipline of anthropology that uses an interdisciplinary approach to "the cross-cultural study of social ordering". [1] The questions that Legal Anthropologists seek to answer concern how is law present in cultures?
Between 1933 and 1949, Hoebel studied the legal systems of the Northern Cheyenne, Northern Shoshone, Comanche, and Pueblo people, and the legal system of Pakistan in 1961. He was a close friend and colleague of Max Gluckman, founder of the Manchester School of British Social Anthropology. Gluckman, also given to a realist orientation to the ...
Her later research examines the language of U.S. legal education in detail using linguistic anthropological approaches (see her book The Language of Law School). [2] [3] [4] She writes on semiotics, anthropology, and law, among other topics. She has been editor of Law & Social Inquiry [5] and of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. [6]
Sally Falk Moore (January 18, 1924 – May 2, 2021) was a legal anthropologist and professor emerita at Harvard University. She did her major fieldwork in Tanzania and published extensively on cross-cultural, comparative legal theory.
Lawrence M. Friedman's definition of legal culture is that it is "the network of values and attitudes relating to law, which determines when and why and where people turn to law or government, or turn away." [2] Legal cultures can be examined by reference to fundamentally different legal systems.
Susan F. Hirsch is a legal anthropologist whose work has specialized in the study of legal language.She is a professor of conflict resolution and anthropology at George Mason University, where she holds the Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Chair in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.
She was the Silver Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the New York University School of Law. Merry had also been president of the American Ethnological Society, the Law and Society Association, and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.
A legal custom is the established pattern of behavior within a particular social setting. A claim can be carried out in defense of "what has always been done and accepted by law". Customary law (also, consuetudinary or unofficial law) exists where: a certain legal practice is observed and