Anthropology

Showing 1 to 13 of 13 results.

Bad Boys

Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

with a foreword by Pedro A. Noguera

By Ann Arnett Ferguson
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Law, Anthropology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

The classic ethnography on how implicit bias impacts black male students’ identities

Human Rights

Concepts, Contests, Contingencies

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Political Science
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Brings together essays that examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics

Doing Time on the Outside

Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America

By Donald Braman
Subjects: Anthropology, African American Studies, Law, Sociology

A compelling account of the unintended social, financial, and personal consequences of incarceration on the families of prisoners

After the End of History

The Curious Fate of American Materialism

1st Edition

By Robert E. Lane
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, African American Studies, Anthropology, Law, Sociology
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

A creative presentation of Lane's career research as an ongoing conversation between two fictitious social scientists with opposing views

At the Risk of Being Heard

Identity, Indigenous Rights, and Postcolonial States

Edited by Bartholomew Crispin Dean & Jerome Meyer Levi
Subjects: Anthropology, Native American Studies, Law, Political Science, International Relations

An analysis of indigenous rights and the challenges confronting indigenous peoples in the twenty-first century

Legalizing Moves

Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency

By (photographer) Susan Bibler Coutin
Subjects: Anthropology, Law, Latin American Studies, Sociology

Examines the transnational implications of immigrants' legalization efforts

Global Prescriptions

The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy

Edited by Yves Dezalay & Bryant G. Garth
Subjects: Law, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology, Anthropology

Essays on the emerging new orthodoxy in international law that advocates the "rule of law" and "civil society" across the globe

Pain, Death, and the Law

Edited by Austin Sarat
Subjects: Law, Political Science, Anthropology, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

How the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts

Blueprints for a House Divided

The Constitutional Logic of the Yugoslav Conflicts

By Robert McBeth Hayden
Subjects: Anthropology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Law, Political Science, Comparative Politics

Argues that international diplomatic activities to resolve the Yugoslav conflicts have been misconceived

The Network Inside Out

By Annelise Riles
Subjects: Anthropology, Law, Asian Studies

A fascinating study of institutional knowledge practices

Laws of the Postcolonial

Edited by Eve Darian-Smith & Peter Fitzpatrick
Subjects: Law, Anthropology, History
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Essays reveal the central part played by law in constituting the West as the antithesis of various 'others'

Recharting the Caribbean

Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands

By Bill (William) M. Maurer
Subjects: Anthropology, Law, Caribbean Studies

Weaves a story of statecraft and law making, of power and the construction of identity

The Possibility of Popular Justice

A Case Study of Community Mediation in the United States

Edited by Sally Engle Merry & Neil Milner
Subjects: Law, Sociology, Political Science, American Politics, Anthropology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Can popular justice ever be a real alternative to the violence and coercion of state law?

© 2024, Regents of the University of MichiganBuilt with the U-M Library Design SystemLibrary Privacy StatementThis site is ReaderBound