Political and Legal Anthropology Review
Edited by:
Elizabeth Mertz
PoLAR publishes cutting-edge work in the field of political and legal anthropology, broadly defined. This innovative and interdisciplinary publication features articles on such issues as nationalism, citizenship, political and legal processes, the state, civil society, colonialism, postcolonial public spheres, multiculturalism, and media politics.
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Read the most downloaded articles in 2009 from POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review:
Sovereign Time, Storied Moments: The Temporalities of Law, Tradition, and Ethnography in Hopi Tribal Court
Justin B. Richland
The Normativity of Numbers: World Bank and IMF Conditionality
Gerhard Anders
Neoliberal Multiculturalism
Charles R. Hale
Negotiating Difference: Discourses of Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Ghana
Thomas Yarrow
Technologies of Knowledge Production: Law, Ethnography, and the Limits of Explanation
Susan Coutin, Barbara Yngvesson
Keeping the Peace: A Tale of Murder and Morality in Postapartheid South Africa
Michal Ran-Rubin
Justice at a Price: Regulation and Alienation in the Global Economy
Daniel Reichman
Analyzing the Trial: Interdisciplinary Methods
Robert Burns, Marianne Constable, Justin Richland, Winnifred Sullivan
Law as Culture: An Invitation by Lawrence Rosen
Mary Riley
Indigenous Responses to Neoliberalism
Nancy Postero
