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APLA 2025 Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition

The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to … More

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Nominations Open: 2025 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology

The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2025 APLA Book Prize in … More

awards

Announcing the winners of the APLA Book and Paper Prizes

APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology recognizes work that best exemplifies creativity and rigor in the ethnographic exploration of politics, law, and/or … More

awards, News

Letter From The President

Dear APLA members and friends, Writing to you on the eve of a hugely consequential election, I want to take … More

APLA Special Events at the AAA 2024

Wednesday, 11/20: VIRTUAL3779 – Virtual Job Market and Career RoundtableTime: 12:45 PM – 2 PMThis virtual roundtable explores a range … More

AAA, Meetings, Speaking Justice to Power

“Non-Existent Plots”: Land Fraud in Nairobi’s Construction Boom

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Peter Lockwood In 2022, Lesedi Developers, a land-selling company in Kenya … More

Anthropology News, Kenya, property

Fire’s Alter-Lives: Climate Change Adaptation and Settler Futurity in Bolivia

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Mareike Winchell Jesús Valdivia planned to get his cows high. This, … More

Anthropology News, Climate change

Haunting Technoscientific Futures in South Korea

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By  Hae-Seo Kim – April 22, 2024 There is an underground cave … More

Anthropology News

APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition

The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to … More

APLA Statement on the 2024 AAA Annual Meeting in Tampa

The Board of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) wants to support all APLA members in deciding how, … More

AAA, Annual Meeting
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Nominations Open: 2024 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology

The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2024 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology competition. The association … More

Anthropology, awards, ethnography

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PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Introducing PoLAR’s 2025-26 Digital Editorial Fellows

Introducing PoLAR’s 2025-26 Digital Editorial Fellows

If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Lessons on Power from Uganda to the U.S.

If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Lessons on Power from Uganda to the U.S.

Current PoLAR Issue November 2025

Current PoLAR Issue November 2025
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