ANTHRCUL 333 Midterm: Law paper 1 outline

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 333
• Professor: Maxwell Owusu

Document Summary

Must look at society and culture as a whole. Anthropology of law is an empirical comparative study of law and in differing societies using distinctly anthropological concepts and methods. Sees law as a behavior and as a process occurring in a total culturally organized environment: pospisil jurisprudence. 3 major disciplines that deal with the subject of law. An ethnologist studies a given culture as a functionally and structurally related whole and does not exclude any segment of it as non-relevant. Ethnology of law is part of living law , created and carried on by members of a particular society: nader. Difference between sociology and anthropology study of law. Little joint research between sociologist and anthropologist. A lot of questions and theories sociologist study should be of main interest to anthropologist (pg. Sociologist deal with the prison, the court, the d. a. "s office, the administrative agency.