Practicing Ethnography in Law : New Dialogues, Enduring Methods

J. Starr

ISBN 10: 1403960690 / ISBN 13: 9781403960696

Published by Palgrave Macmillan Us, 2002

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Practicing Ethnography in Law brings together a selection of top scholars in legal anthropology, social sciences, and law to delineate the state of the art in ethnographic research strategies. Each of these original essays addresses a particular set of analytical problems and uses these problems to explore issues of ethnographic technique, research methodology, and the theoretical underpinnings of ethnographic legal studies. Subjects explored include the relationship between legal and feminist scholarship, between law and the media, law and globalization, and the usefulness of a wide variety of research techniques: comparative, linguistic, life-history, interview, and archival. This volume will serve as a guide for students who are designing their own research projects, for scholars who are newly exploring the possibilities of ethnographic research, and for experienced ethnographers who are engaged with methodological issues in light of current theoretical developments. The book will be essential reading for courses in anthropological methods, legal anthropology, and sociology and law.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practicing Ethnography in Law : New Dialogues, Enduring Methods
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Us
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403960690
• ISBN 13: 9781403960696
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 243W x 162H x 18D millimeters 243 millimeters width by 162 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 440 grams

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Synopsis

Practicing Ethnography in Law brings together a selection of top scholars in legal anthropology, social sciences, and law to delineate the state of the art in ethnographic research strategies. Each of these original essays addresses a particular set of analytical problems and uses these problems to explore issues of ethnographic technique, research methodology, and the theoretical underpinnings of ethnographic legal studies. Subjects explored include the relationship between legal and feminist scholarship, between law and the media, law and globalization, and the usefulness of a wide variety of research techniques: comparative, linguistic, life-history, interview, and archival. This volume will serve as a guide for students who are designing their own research projects, for scholars who are newly exploring the possibilities of ethnographic research, and for experienced ethnographers who are engaged with methodological issues in light of current theoretical developments. The book will be essential reading for courses in anthropological methods, legal anthropology, and sociology and law.

About the Author

June Starr was one of the major figures in the ethnographic study of law and was Professor at the Indiana University School of Law.

Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne and Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights.