This Reader offers a remarkable overview of the field of law and anthropology: its development, present, and potential future courses.

• Edited by a preeminent anthropologist, lawyer, and pioneer in the study of law & anthropology.
• Brings together classics of political thought and key contemporary work from social scientists and lawyers.
• Explores historical issues and more contemporary ones such as illegal migration, human rights, gender discrimination, political corruption, and reparations for injustices committed by previous regimes.

Sally Falk Moore is Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, at Harvard University. She is winner of the 2005 Harry Kalven Prize, for empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society.