1: Introduction
2: Order, Disputes, and Legal Pluralism
3: Legal Thought: Meaning and Form
4: Law as an Intellectual Tradition
5: Idealism, Tradition, and Authority
6: Legalism
7: Morality and Community
8: Law and the State
9: Conclusion
Bibliography
Fernanda Pirie is a University Lecturer in socio-legal studies at
the University of Oxford, and Director of the University's Centre
for Socio-Legal Studies. An anthropologist by training, following a
career at the London Bar, she has carried out fieldwork for over a
decade on the Tibetan plateau. Her studies have centred on conflict
resolution, social order, and tribe-state relations, and have lead
to publications on violence, conflict, order, and disorder.
More
recently she has been working on the nature of legalism on the
Tibetan plateau. She is a coordinator of the Oxford Legalism
project, which brings together scholars from law, history,
anthropology,
classics, and oriental studies in a series of seminars and
workshops, in order to compare examples of legalistic texts,
practices, and thought from across the world.
This is a fascinating investigation into the nature of law in light
of the findings of anthropology and comparative law... This reader
has learnt a good deal from this persuasively argued book with its
wealth of examples from all parts of the world and all ages of
history. It must be recommended to anyone interested in legal
theory, comparative law, or legal anthropology.
*Gordon R. Woodman, The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial
Law*
Fernanda Pirie's The Anthropology of Law is an exciting
introduction to this ethnographically informed field of inquiry.
Although a number of texts on anthropology and law have been
published in recent years, Pirie's commentary is imbued with her
own insightful contributions that help to more clearly define the
field and at the same time make it accessible to a wide range of
scholars across the social sciences and humanities.
*Eve Darian-Smith, Law and History Review*
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