Anthropology, Law, and Transnational Processes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18985709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally Engle Merry (0000-0001-5872-9898, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 357-377 |
| Publication date | 1992-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.an.21.100192.002041 |
| OpenAlex | W2041653660 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 127 |
| References cited | 125 |
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Economic geography · Geography · Linguistics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · Sex work and related issues · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Transnational Humanitarianism
Beating the Bounds
Governing violence in the pastoralist space
Old roads and new directions
Grasping Cacophony in Bolivian Heritage Otherwise
Copyright Heritage
Heritage Fever
Before History and Prior to Politics
“Best Interests” and the Repatriation of Vietnamese Unaccompanied Minors
Urbanizing the Countryside
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Unsettled Settlers
“Honest Bandits” and “Warped People”
Beating the Bounds
In the Name of the State?
Governing Population
Governance and State Mythologies in Mumbai
Judges without Courts
The Composite State
Ghettos in the Holocaust
Fictions of Justice
In the Name of the State? Schools and Teachers in an Andean Province
The Practice of Human Rights
Representing Suffering
Regulating humanity's impact on the earth
The Right To Be Different
Culture, tourism and migration in bintan borderland – legal anthropology perspective
Global Discourses on the Local Terrain
Rocking the Cradle
Toward an Anthropology of Fragments, Instabilities, and Incomplete Transitions
Rethinking Citizenship
The Perfidy of Gaze and the Pain of Uncertainty
Interlude
Domestic Matters
“Demonic Societies”
Imagining the State as a Space
Trance against the State
The Captive State
Ethnography in/of Transnational Processes
Cultural Rights and Human Rights
The Battlefield and the Prize
The Labyrinth of Translation
Public Secrets, Conscious Amnesia, and the Celebration of Autonomy for Ladakh
Reconstructing National Identity and Renegotiating Memory
Islam, Law, and Equality in Indonesia
The Law of Society
The Parallel Worlds of Corporate Governance and Labor Law
Violence, Development, and Canada’s New Transnational Jurisprudence
Clan Claims
A Penny for Your Thoughts
Introduction. Through the Lens of the Law
O conceito de teoria e a sua função em quatro tipos de pesquisa em Direito
Legal Pluralism and Cultural Difference
When the Alternative Fails
The Hindu Succession act
Popular Justice and Aboriginal Communities
Who’s Afraid of Legal Pluralism
Collective forests and the community at the legal frontier of property rights reforms in China
The Dynamics of Change and Continuity in Plural Legal Orders
Law at its limits
Legal Pluralism, Indigenous People and Small Island Developing States
Human rights hackers
Reconciling human rights and customary law
Comparative, global and transnational constitutionalism
Reframing the debate
Riding or killing the centaur? Reflections on the identities of legal anthropology
Theorizing Transnational Legal Ordering
Climate change disputes and justice in C entral K alimantan, I ndonesia
The construction of workers’ rights consciousness through legal intermediations
Changing African Land Tenure
Neither Here nor There
Counter‐expertise and the politics of collaboration
Beyond Global Convergence
What is a Critical Legal Pluralism
Administering Justice Without the State
Shades of Universality
Changing to Gray
From antiquity to the factory floor
Establishing the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the Minimum Standard for All Forensic Practice with Australian Indigenous Peoples
Who controls the territory and the resources? Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as a contested human rights practice in Bolivia
Leveraging Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Workplace Harmony
Speaking out on the internet
L'organisation de la mobilité dans les sociétés rurales du Sud
Introduction to the Symposium
Narrating Law and Environmental Body Politics (in Times of War) in “Indigenous America/America
Indian Rights and Customary Law in Mexico
De mänskliga rättigheternas relativa universalism – Om antropologers försök att teoretisera mänskliga rättigheter
Rethinking sovereignty with reference to history and anthropology
Choisir des cas exemplaires
Justice and healing
Global Legal Pluralism
Education Policy as a Practice of Power
Legalidades e ilegalidades
A Tale of Many Battles
Pluralism and local law in extraterritorial spaces
Discursive mismatch and globalization by stealth
Structural Inequalities in the Global Legal System
Consensus and Suspicion
The World and the Academy
Redéfinition des pratiques de justice par les femmes autochtones au Guatemala
Rules versus relationships
Disputes and Settlements
Order and Dispute
The Politics of informal justice
The bilingual courtroom
The Yolngu and their land
Law and state in Papua New Guinea
Getting justice and getting even
The Social Dynamics of Dispute Settlement in a Sunni Muslim Village in Lebanon
Dispute Settlement and Dispute Processing in Zambia
Islamic “Case Law” and the Logic of Consequence
Disputing Issues in Shehaam, a Multireligious Village in Lebanon
A Good Name is Worth More Than Money
Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule
Law, custom, and social order
Discipline and Punish
Law and society in modern India
Kissing Hands and Knees
Beyond informal justice
Why People Obey the Law
We Are Here
Law as Metaphor
Property in Social Continuity
Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule
Islamic Law and Society in the Sudan
Harmony Ideology
Dramatic gestures
Anthropology, Dispute Processes and Law
The Boston School Integration Dispute
Legal Practice in Ibadan, 1904–1960
The Clash between Indigenous, Islamic, Colonial and Post-Colonial Law in Nigeria
Some Observations on the Relationship between The King and The Buddhist Order in Ancient India
Sentencing, Custom and the Rule of Law in Papua New Guinea
Capitalist Rice Farming and Land Allocation in Northern Ghana
The Social Construction of Colonial Reality
Some Comments on the Problems of Comparing the Relationship between Traditional and State Systems of Administration of Justice in Africa and Indonesia
The Imposition of Anglo-American Land Tenure Law on Hawaiians
A Note on Caste Panchayats and Government Courts in India
Return to Legal Pluralism
The Concept of Pela and its Social Significance in the Community of Moluccan Immigrants in the Netherlands
What is Legal Pluralism
Islamic Legal System and the Westernization Process in the Nigerian Emirates
The Role of ‘Folk Law’ as Evidence of Historic Title in International Boundary Claims
The Social Significance of Minangkabau State Court Decisions
Nature is to Culture as Praying is to Suing
Customary Family Law in Malawi
State Coercion against Peasant Farmers
A Note on Village Courts in Papua-New Guinea
Economic Development and the Changing Legal System of Papua New Guinea
Colonialism and Legal Form
Forum Shopping and Shopping Forums
Crime as Resistance
Right, Rage, and Remedy
The Boston School Integration Dispute
The Imposition of Law
Capitalism and Legal Change
Mediation and Society
Praying for Justice
Justice without Law
The Ideology of Popular Justice in Sri Lanka
Property, Social Structure and Law in the Modern Middle East
Law without Lawyers
A Peculiar Sharpness
Law and Culture in the District Court of Honolulu, 1844-1845
Justice in many Rooms
Rules and processes, the cultural logic of dispute in an African context
Mediator Settlement Strategies
Modern and Traditional Administration of Justice in New Guinea
The Emergence and Decline of the Cuban Popular Tribunals
Thinking Disputes
Political Leadership and Legal Change in Zinacantan
The Structure of Discourse in Misdemeanor Plea Bargaining
Law and Strategy in the Divorce Lawyer's Office
The Impact of a Legal Revolution in Rural Turkey
Going to Court
Criminal Law in Papua New Guinea
Between Kinship and the State. Social Security and Law in Developing Countries
Property in Social Continuity. Continuity and Change in the Maintenance of Property Relationship Through Time in Minangkabau, West Sumatra
The Uses of History
The Role of Turkish Secular Law in Changing the Lives of Rural Muslim Women, 1950-1970
Legal Pluralism
Code and Custom in a Thai Provincial Court. The Interaction of Formal and Informal Systems of Justice
A Political Analysis of the Philippines' Katarungang Pambarangay System of Informal Justice through Mediation
The End of the Road? Problems in the Analysis of Disputes
Dispute Processing by the Philippine Agrarian Court
Formal Litigation and Professional Insecurity
Law, Time, and Community
The Law of the Oppressed
Making Law at The Doorway
Ideological Production
Law and Social Relations
Rule-Centrism Versus Legal Creativity
Courting Difference
Conflict and Compromise
Creating People's Justice
Violent conflict in Meta' society
Processes of Dispute Management Among Urban Black Children
Christianity and colonialism in South Africa
Hermeneutics and world construction in Maranao disputing
Everyday understandings of the law in working-class America
| Unique citing works | 127 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,85 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2025 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 120 |