Overview
Description
Analysis of social order and control, dispute resolution, conflict, rules and norms, and processes of maintaining order from an anthropological perspective.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- articulate and evaluate different theoretical approaches to the study of law in anthropology, and explain their foundations in social theory.
- define and criticize key terms in the anthropology of law, such as pluralism, custom, norms, rules, process, and disputes.
- evaluate and apply different methodological approaches to studying law in anthropology, and demonstrate how anthropological methods enhance the study of law in global contexts.
- demonstrate how law and legally-relevant ideas change in light of historical and contemporary local and global processes.
- apply, orally, in writing, and in practice, the theoretical, empirical, and/or methodical issues covered by the course to research questions in the Anthropology of Law.