Abstract
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is a division of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) dedicated to studying and promoting anthropological approaches to law, political systems, and governmental authority. As anthropological subdisciplines, legal and political anthropology have promoted ethnographic research and theoretical contributions to understanding law's relationship to culture and power. They are also concerned with the cultures of legal and political institutions.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
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Copyright © 2007 Sage Publications. This article first appeared in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives.
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French, Jan Hoffman. "Association for Political and Legal Anthropology."Encyclopedia of Law and Society. Vol. 1. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2007.