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Riding or killing the centaur? Reflections on the identities of legal anthropology1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2008

Franz von Benda-Beckmann
Franz von Benda-Beckmann*
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Professor, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
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Abstract

The article examines how the academic genre called the ‘anthropology of law’ or ‘legal anthropology’ developed under the disciplinary constraints of both the social and legal sciences. It first discusses its historical development and different trajectories and engages in a comparative analysis of similarities and differences between anthropologists, lawyers and sociologists of law. Finally, by looking at the ways in which cognitive and normative categories such as ‘legal anthropology’ are reproduced and changed through time, the article in itself is a legal anthropological exercise. The author concludes that there are hardly any identity markers left that would demarcate legal anthropology in a mutually exclusive way from other (sub)disciplines. The distinctiveness of legal anthropology rather lies in an accumulation of features, which make (legal) anthropology what it is, even if many features may be shared with other disciplines.

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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 85 - 110
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Cambridge University Press 2008

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