Practicing
Ethnography in Law brings together a selection of top scholars
in legal anthropology, social sciences, and law to delineate the state
of the art in ethnographic research strategies. Each of these original
essays addresses a particular set of analytical problems and uses
these problems to explore issues of ethnographic technique, research
methodology, and the theoretical underpinnings of ethnographic legal
studies. Subjects explored include the relationship between legal
and feminist scholarship, between law and the media, law and globalization,
and the usefulness of a wide variety of research techniques: comparative,
linguistic, life-history, interview, archival. This volume will serve
as a guide for students who are designing their own research projects,
for scholars who are newly exploring the possibilities of ethnographic
research, and for experienced ethnographers who are engaged with methodological
issues in light of current theoretical developments. The book will
be essential reading for courses in anthropological methods, legal
anthropology, and sociology and law.
