Contents:
Preface v;
Notes on Contributors ix;
Introduction: law and anthropology;
Michael Freeman and David Napier;
1. Riding or Killing the Centaur? Reflections on the Identities of Legal Anthropology, Franz von Benda-Beckmann;
2. Law and Anthropology: Old Relations, New Relativities, Carol Greenhouse;
3. Law and Anthropology in a "Glocal" World - The Challenge of Dialogue, Christoph Eberhard;
4. Cultural Conflicts, Annelise Riles;
5. Ethnography in Ordinary Case Law, Rebecca R. French;
6. From Tribal Tibet: The Significance of the Legal Form, Fernanda Pirie;
7. Anthropological Perspective is on Governance In a Transnational World, Anne Griffiths;
8. Anthropologists In The Canadian Courts, Elizabeth Cassell;
9. Legal Foundations for the Recognition of Customary law In the Post-Colonial South Pacific, Erika J Techera;
10. Indigeneity and the Expert: Negotiating Identity: the Case of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Maria Sapignoli;
11. Suturing Difference: The Articulation of Property and Participation in Land in Fiji, Allen Abramson;
12. The Role of Social Representation in the Production and Application of the Law: A Case Study of Property Law in Senegal, Caroline Plançon;
13. "Nature" Categories of Intellectual Property in Western - Inspired Legal Cultures: International Treaties as Ethnographic Objects, Claudia Ituarte-Lima;
14. Indigenous Peoples and the Right of Political Autonomy in an Age of Global Legal Pluralism, Steven Wheatley;
15. Relating To The Subjects of Human Rights: The Culture of Agency in Human Rights Discourse, Sally Engle Merry;
16. Multicultural Interlegality? Negotiating Family Law in the Context of Muslim Legal Pluralism in the U.K., Samia Bano;
17. Professional Integrity, Richard Abel;
18. Discipline Exchange on Organ Swaps, Marie-Andrée Jacob;
19. Bestia Sacer..., Robin Mackenzie;
20. Framing The Family in Late Imperial China: An Anthropological Glance at Some Family Cases in the Conspectus of Penal Cases (Xing' huilan), Françoise Lauwaert;
21. The Rules of Buddhist Monks: Issues of Property and Pollution, Malcolm Voyce;
Index.