Christabel Donatienne Ruby

Legal anthropology Christabel Donatienne Ruby

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Legal anthropology is a sub-discipline of anthropology which specializes in "the cross-cultural study of social ordering." This broad definition of the field captures the wide array of research done by legal anthropologists today. Earlier legal anthropological research often focused more narrowly on conflict management, crime, sanctions, or formal regulation. Bronis aw Malinowski's 1926 work, Crime and Custom in Savage Society, explored law, order, crime, and punishment among the Trobriand Islanders. Further early works by anthropologists on the topic of law include Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 work, Ancient Law, and Lewis Henry Morgan's 1877 work, Ancient Society. Malinowski, Maine, and Morgan are often thought of as founding thinkers in legal anthropology. There are a number of useful introductions to the field of legal anthropology (see, e.g., ). Sally Falk Moore, a leading legal anthropologist, held both a law degree and a Ph. D. in anthropology. Today a growing number of legal anthropologists hold both J. D.s and advanced degrees in anthropology, and some teach in law schools while maintaining scholarly connections within the field of legal anthropology.