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#LSANOLA2016 Preview: Languages and Practices of Legality
The Ethnography Collaborative Research Network within the Law and Society Association is sponsoring several panels and events of interest to anthropologists. APLA is featuring a preview of the panels and papers…
#LSANOLA16 Preview: Ethnographic Explorations of Illegalities, Penality, and Risk/Security Part III
Papers in Part III, presented here, explore the subjective dimensions of law and politics in situations where the contours of legality are contested…
#LSANOLA16 Preview: Ethnographic Explorations of Illegalities, Penality, and Risk/Security Part II
These three linked sessions present detailed ethnographic examinations of the legal governance of crime, punishment, risk and security…
#LSANOLA16 Preview: Ethnographic Explorations of Illegalities, Penality, and Risk/Security Part I
These three linked sessions present detailed ethnographic examinations of the legal governance of crime, punishment, risk and security…
#LSANOLA16 Preview: Following the Law
The Ethnography Collaborative Research Network within the Law and Society Association is sponsoring several panels and events of interest to anthropologists…
Winner and finalists for APLA’s Graduate Student Paper Prize!
The 2014 APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize committee was Gabrielle Hosein, Mark Schuller, and Chika Watanabe. This year we added … More
Graduate Student Paper Prize!
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition Deadline: August 1, 2014 The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Board invites … More
APLA at LSA Meetings ’14: Law and Inequalities – Global and Local
APLA members are launching a new Collaborative Research Network (CRN) on Ethnography, Law and Society through the Law and Society … More
Presidential Address Now Published!
Don’t miss Susan Coutin and Sally Merry’s joint APLA-AES 2013 Presidential Address now published in American Ethnologist: Technologies of truth … More
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. and J.D.) to send stand-alone papers … More
Panel Honoring Barbara Yngvesson, APLA-AES Meetings, Chicago 2013
From left to right: Ilana Gershon, Carol Greenhouse, Susan Coutin, Barbara Yngvesson, Rachael Styker and Michelle Bigenho. During the joint … More
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