Bronislaw Malinowski and the Anthropology of Law

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Result on the web

<a href="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-42025-7_4" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-42025-7_4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42025-7_4" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-42025-7_4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bronislaw Malinowski and the Anthropology of Law

Original language description

This chapter points out that a solid understanding of Bronislaw Malinowski's relationship to law should be founded on how it differs from both non-legal anthropology and jurisprudence. The reader is guided to the moment when the link between law, anthropology and exotic fieldwork became a fount of inspiration. With a slight retrospective bias, the main lines of research are described as being in favour of Malinowski. A closer look at native law through participant observation acts as a starting point for explaining how the ethnographer sees law within the seamless web of the foreign culture. The symmetrical treatment of law and science should help to illuminate the significance of Malinowski's anthropology of law for those anthropologists who are usually not concerned with law. Reciprocity is presented as a part of a much different idea than the definition of law or kula, and as a disconnecting factor in relation to conventional modern dualisms. The chapter then discusses the unrecognised discoveries that are to be found underneath the hostile criticism of Malinowski and the misunderstood ironies expressed by Malinowski within the context of conflict between the Trobriand legal systems as a key to understanding Malinowski's approach to native and European law. Finally, the chapter returns to the impact of Malinowski's methodological innovations, such as cross-cultural comparison and participant observation, on the anthropological ideas of law and legal comparisons.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Bronislaw Malinowski's Concept of Law

ISBN

978-3-319-42025-7

Number of pages of the result

27

Pages from-to

55-81

Number of pages of the book

106

Publisher name

Springer International Publishing Switzerland

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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