Anthropology of Law

Catalog description

Examines the way the law and legal apparatuses binds subjects (human and otherwise) to the material world. It does so by conceptually analyzing what the law is and the experiences it creates as they are depicted in legal discourse, the historical archive, and ethnography. Topics include rights, freedoms, and entitlements; crime and punishment; slavery and servitude; the formation of constitutional power; status laws and the logic of race that undergirds them; and the subterranean political, social, and economic desires that the law seeks to exploit and animate within “the people.”