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ANTH 5235 - Legal Anthropology

Effective Start Date: 02/11/2014
This course is an introduction to legal anthropology for graduate students or advanced undergraduates. This course investigates law systems, legal argumentation, and people’s interactions with these thoughts and forms. Rather than taking as given the hegemonic power that legal structures might hold over people’s lives and thought, this course questions how people use, abuse, subvert, and leverage legal structures in which they find themselves.

Credits: 3
Grading Basis: Student Option