{"title":"Extended Sites of Action","authors":"Narmala Halstead","doi":"10.3167/JLA.2018.020201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JLA.2018.020201","url":null,"abstract":"The forum in this issue, reflecting on the problematics of the relationship\u0000between anthropology and law, as a timely focus is also indicative\u0000of how these debates revolve around disciplinary and cross-disciplinary\u0000issues. That such co-presence of anthropology and law, incorporating\u0000research in informal and formal settings, various kinds of collaboration\u0000and, in some instances, sceptical views about its value, continues\u0000to merit close attention also signals how views of differences animate\u0000a well-populated and extended field. The concerns are often articulated\u0000around an epistemic divide between anthropology and law, and\u0000allow for questioning both within and across disciplinary areas, even\u0000as much is made of the richness of an ethnographic approach to law\u0000alongside other methods and analyses, as indicated. Lawrence Rosen,\u0000in his response to the commentators in the forum, notes ‘our special\u0000area of interest is actually a great doorway into many key issues for\u0000both disciplines’, as he identifies the spaces where it is incumbent for\u0000anthropologists to act to address these cross-disciplinary challenges.","PeriodicalId":34676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Anthropology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89892644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Anthropology Doesn’t Matter Much to Law","authors":"M. Peletz","doi":"10.3167/JLA.2018.020209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JLA.2018.020209","url":null,"abstract":"Jeremy Kingsley and Kari Telle’s provocation article raises several\u0000important issues. The thrust of their argument as I understand it is that\u0000anthropology does not matter much to the field of law in many parts\u0000of the world. They are quick to point out, however, that this is a relative\u0000point and that their comparative frame takes as its point of departure\u0000the much greater degree of intellectual engagement that obtains\u0000between schools of medicine and public health on the one hand and the\u0000field of anthropology on the other. I concur with their overall argument\u0000but will phrase it in slightly different terms: despite the robust collaborations\u0000that sometimes involve legal scholars and anthropologists (e.g.\u0000in legal clinics at New York University and elsewhere; see Merry, this\u0000issue), faculty in law schools are much less likely to embrace the work\u0000of anthropologists than are their colleagues who specialise in medicine\u0000and public health. In this brief comment, I offer tentative hypotheses as\u0000to why this situation exists in the North American context. I approach\u0000the relevant issues from a historical perspective, focusing on hierarchies\u0000of legitimacy and prestige, shifts in both academia and the job market\u0000for anthropologists, and the rise of neoliberal doctrines in academia\u0000and beyond.","PeriodicalId":34676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Anthropology","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86801520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life at a Tangent to Law","authors":"W. Rollason","doi":"10.3167/JLA.2018.020103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JLA.2018.020103","url":null,"abstract":"This article concerns the relationship between motorcycle taxi drivers in Kigali and the legal frameworks that govern their business. While motorcyclists commonly subvert legal processes, or avoid complying with regulations, this should not be understood in terms of their ‘resistance’ to legal orders. To do so would imply that laws are imposed on their social lives from without; however, I show how illegalities help to structure social life by creating ‘mistakes’ that are the basis of social relations. I argue that motorcyclists do not confront legal orders in the idiom of resistance, but neither are they determined or shaped directly by legality. Rather, partially formed by breaches of rules, law is integral to their lives, shaping them indirectly or tangentially, according to the relationships and connections ‘mistakes’ with respect to law enable. Law regulates life not by encoding its rules, but by allowing certain kinds of relationships to form.","PeriodicalId":34676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Anthropology","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75313666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Being Inside and Outside Social Relations","authors":"N. Rapport","doi":"10.3167/JLA.2018.020110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JLA.2018.020110","url":null,"abstract":"It is a special responsibility to incur individual readings of one’s work from colleagues. I hope the following line of thought does them justice.Nay Rather, an essay by Anne Carson (a translator and poet as well as a classical scholar), begins with an account of the trial of Joan of Arc. Caught in battle against the English and their Burgundian allies on 23 May 1430, a year after she had assisted a French army in lifting the English siege of Orleans, Joan of Arc was put on trial for heresy. The trial lasted from January to May 1431, and Joan was burnt at the stake on 30 May, aged nineteen. In recounting this history, Carson explains that she is particularly interested in the way in which, as she puts it, Joan was ‘distant’ from her own words. Carson (2014: 8) elaborates. Joan of Arc’s guidance, military and moral came from a source that she called ‘voices’. She began to hear them at the age of twelve, and they commanded her style of dress, her beliefs and the revolutionary politics of her action. At her trial, her English ecclesiastical prosecutors wanted to know her voices, for Joan to name and describe them in ways in which they might understand: in terms of recognised religious imagery and emotions, and in a conventional narrative that might then\u0000be subjected to mechanisms of theological proof.","PeriodicalId":34676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Anthropology","volume":"2 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3167/JLA.2018.020110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72401534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on Cosmopolitan Politesse with Perspectives from Papua New Guinea","authors":"E. Hirsch","doi":"10.3167/JLA.2018.020107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JLA.2018.020107","url":null,"abstract":"In this issue’s forum, Nigel Rapport takes his lead from Georg Simmel, who asked how society is possible. Simmel notes that every individual has a sense of being connected to others, and it is through these connections that the individual has a ‘grasp of the whole complex as society’ (1971: 8). But this understanding is only realised through particular, concrete interactions. The individual in Simmel’s sociology, then, can only exist as an individual through this engagement with others – with, in short, ‘society’. It is this set of relations, it seems, that makes society possible. However, Simmel suggests that the picture an individual gains of the Other through personal contact is based on certain distortions – classifications of a general and conventional nature, some of which may be alienating. At the same time, Simmel also indicates that the individual simultaneously remains separate from society: ‘It seems, however, that every individual has in himself a core of individuality which cannot be re-created by anybody else whose core differs qualitatively from his own. . . . We cannot know completely the individuality of another’ (9–10).","PeriodicalId":34676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Anthropology","volume":"143 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86193609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cosmopolitan Politesse","authors":"N. Rapport","doi":"10.3167/JLA.2018.020106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JLA.2018.020106","url":null,"abstract":"In an earlier work (Anyone: The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology, 2012), I considered a solution to the ‘problem’ of society as identified by Georg Simmel. The fact that we only come to know the interactional ‘Other’ by way of distortion, by virtue of the imposition of alien and alienating labels, categories and taxonomies, Simmel (1971) described as ‘tragic’ (cf. Rapport 2017). We distort the Other’s identity when we ‘know’ them in the conventional and collectivising terms of a symbolic classification of cultural reality. In response, I argued for a linguistic and behavioural style of public address and exchange, and an ethos of good manners, that I termed ‘cosmopolitan politesse’. This was an interactional code by which we presumed the common humanity and the distinct individuality of whomsoever we engaged with, but classified the Other in no more substantive fashion than this. We accepted that in our social interactions we were engaging with an individual human other – ‘Anyone’ – and not with a representative of some more substantive class: ‘a woman’, ‘a Swede’, ‘a Jew’, someone ‘working class’, ‘primitive’ or ‘pious’, and so on.","PeriodicalId":34676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Anthropology","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90270096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea","authors":"M. Strathern","doi":"10.3167/JLA.2018.020109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JLA.2018.020109","url":null,"abstract":"Open to the journal’s remit to consider how the legal may enter social constructions of persons or might change meaning in terms of everyday interpretations, I am enchanted by Nigel Rapport’s redescription of anthropological practice in this issue’s forum. Such practice, he suggests, is a scaled-up version of everyday human practice, at least in so far as ‘the common humanity of our research subjects becomes the basis of our being able to understand their . . . [diverse] difference[s]’. Like Anyone, anthropologists use generalised human means to judge local actions. Acting in this way (when it becomes an ethic) is a mark of the cosmopolitan politesse he would see as a potential vector of a Western, liberal, moral vision, with its sense of the realities of human life, a knowable ontological foundation, in which individuals flourish when they sustain their own personal and collective worlds. Such a vision also mobilises a certain capacity for justice embedded in the everyday. The relation between this philosophically conceived notion of justice and ‘the legal’ is left to the imagination. But Rapport has given us much to think about with respect to how one might find or redefine what is of legal concern beyond the public arena of the state and its bureaucracy, and thus in ‘other’ kinds of social space.","PeriodicalId":34676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89293596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Love is Love","authors":"Dylan Kerrigan","doi":"10.3167/JLA.2018.020111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JLA.2018.020111","url":null,"abstract":"Trinidad and Tobago’s anti-gay laws can be traced back to British colonialism and European imperialism. Their existence today and their consequences for human lives in Trinidad and Tobago during the past one hundred years are a local entanglement of historic global hierarchies of power. On 12 April 2018, in the High Court of Port of Spain, capital of Trinidad and Tobago, Justice Devindra Rampersad, in a form of judicial activism, trod where local politicians have not dared and intervened in such coloniality by delivering a legal judgement upholding the challenge by Jason Jones to the nineteenth-century colonial laws in Trinidad and Tobago that criminalise homosexual relations and same-sex loving.","PeriodicalId":34676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Anthropology","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79576314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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