Practicing Ethnography in Law

New Dialogues, Enduring Methods

By: J. Starr (Editor), M. Goodale (Editor)

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Hardcover | 20 December 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Practicing Ethnography in Law brings together a selection of top scholars in legal anthropology, social sciences, and law to delineate the state of the art in ethnographic research strategies. Each of these original essays addresses a particular set of analytical problems and uses these problems to explore issues of ethnographic technique, research methodology, and the theoretical underpinnings of ethnographic legal studies. Subjects explored include the relationship between legal and feminist scholarship, between law and the media, law and globalization, and the usefulness of a wide variety of research techniques: comparative, linguistic, life-history, interview, and archival. This volume will serve as a guide for students who are designing their own research projects, for scholars who are newly exploring the possibilities of ethnographic research, and for experienced ethnographers who are engaged with methodological issues in light of current theoretical developments. The book will be essential reading for courses in anthropological methods, legal anthropology, and sociology and law.

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"PRACTICING ETHNOGRAPHY IN LAW opens up to searching scrutiny the ways and means of legal anthropology. But it is much, much more than a primer on method or a textbook on technique. At once critically acute and creatively wide-ranging, the eleven essays--headed by an unusually thoughtful introduction--also interrogate the epistemic foundations and conceptual scaffolding of the comparative study of law. Drawing on a broad spectrum of ethnographic sites, and addressing an equally broad range of important theoretical and analytical questions, this volume is a must-read."
--John L. Comaroff, University of Chicago
"This cutting-edge collection of essays on legal ethnography is a fitting tribute to the memory of June Starr, as it does justice to her strongly-held concern about maintaining high methodological standards in legal anthropology. The essays are marked by a searching honesty, which doesn't shrink from acknowledging the dilemmas and compromises necessary to performing good ethnography in unsettling times and circumstances. With feet firmly planted in the time-honored requirements of in-depth ethnographic work, which are not always met by some professing to perform 'ethnography, ' these authors nonetheless also deal boldly with the variations, flexibility, and new ethical binds raised by a vigorous engagement with fieldwork and ethnography in today's world."
--Elizabeth Mertz, Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School

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Non-Fiction Law Jurisprudence & General Issues Comparative Law Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Systems of Law Physical Anthropology Social Services & Welfare Crime & Criminology Laws of Specific Jurisdictions

Constitutional & Administrative Law Human Rights & Civil Liberties Law

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface: June Starr	p. xi
Introduction: Legal Ethnography: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods	p. 1
Performing Legal Ethnography
Feminist Participatory Research on Legal Consciousness	p. 13
Trekking Processual Planes beyond the Rule of Law	p. 34
Legal Ethnography in an Era of Globalization: The Arrival of Western Human Rights Discourse to Rural Bolivia	p. 50
Analyzing Witchcraft Beliefs	p. 72
Exploring Legal Culture in Law-Avoidance Societies	p. 87
Reconceptualizing Research: Ethnographic Fieldwork and Immigration Politics in Southern California	p. 108
Ethnography in the Archives	p. 128
Stories from the Field: Collecting Data Outside Over There	p. 143
Doing Ethnography: Living Law, Life Histories, and Narratives from Botswana	p. 160
Reflections on Ethnography in Law
A Few Thoughts on Ethnography, History, and Law	p. 185
Moving On--Comprehending Anthropologies of Law	p. 190
Notes on the Contributors	p. 203
Index	p. 207
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