ANT366H5

Anthropology of Law

The course explores anthropological approaches to the study of law, social orders, political and normative authorities, frames of rights, regimes of crime and punishment, and forms of justice-seeking. Accounting for different understandings of law and everyday legal practices, the course readings include canonical texts of legal anthropology as well as recent ethnographies of law. The course outlines the key concepts, issues, and methods of legal anthropology as a specific field of study in relation to the larger history of the discipline.