Teaching
Below are syllabi that may be of interest to APLA members and anyone else teaching courses in political or legal anthropology. If you would like to send materials for inclusion on these lists or on other related subjects, please email materials to Kimberley Coles at kimberley_coles@redlands.edu.
Syllabi
General Political/Legal Anthropology
- Contemporary Issues in Law and Society
Professor Susan Coutin, Criminology, Law and Society/Anthropology, UC Irvine - Ethnic and National Identity
Professor Jean Jackson, Anthropology, MIT - Legal Anthropology
Professor John Comaroff, University of Chicago
Trials
- Feminism, Courts and Law
Dr. Srimati Basu, University of Kentucky - Trials of the Holocaust
Professor Frank Tuerkheimer, University of Wisconsin Law School - Also, for related articles and Directions Section, check out PoLAR Volume 31:2 (2008)!
Anthropology of Crime
- Anthropology of Crime
Professor Ellen Moodie, Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Criminal Justice: Cross-Cultural Studies
Dr. Stephanie Kane, University of Indiana, Bloomington - The Twenty-First Century, Law and Disorder
Professors Jean and John Comaroff, University of Chicago
Middle Eastern and Islamic Law
- Law in Middle East Societies
Professor George E. Bisharat, Hastings College of Law - Islamic Law
Professor George E. Bisharat, Hastings College of Law - Women’s Rights and Politics in Muslim Societies
Professor Arzoo Osanloo, University of Washington
Indigeneity in the United States
- Conditions of Indigeneity
Dr. Jessica Cattelino, Anthropology, UCLA - The Ethnohistory of Native Americans Since 1851
Dr. William Bauer, History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
