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Law and Anthropology: A Case Study in Inter-Disciplinary Collaboration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

William Twining
William Twining*
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University of Warwick
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“If the integration of law and anthropology is to flourish, it must be on a truly functional basis. Each must contribute to the dynamics of the other; each must add to the operative effectiveness of the other; each must nourish the other as a process. Mere static comparison, a paralleling of civilized rules of law with selected examples from sundry primitive tribes, is a sterile accomplishment.”

E. Adamson Hoebel“Law and Anthropology,” 32 Va.L.Rev. 835 (1946)

The partnership between Karl Llewellyn and E. Adamson Hoebel is generally regarded as the most successful example of collaboration between a lawyer and an anthropologist in the annals of Anglo-American scholarship. In many respects it is unique. There have been individuals who have been trained in both disciplines; a number of legal scholars have made extensive use of anthropological literature; jurisprudence has regularly provided ethnographers of law with some of their main concepts and in recent years there has been an extensive, if disjointed, dialogue between representatives of the two disciplines. But, Llewellyn and Hoebel apart, in respect of research there has been little alacrity on the part of lawyers and anthropologists in responding to calls for interdisciplinary co-operation. Moreover, there are sometimes signs of tension in relationships between the two groups, although for the most part such tensions are hidden behind the curtain of academic diplomacy.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , Summer 1973 , pp. 561 - 583
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Copyright © The Law and Society Association, 1973.

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