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‘Does Anthropology Matter to Law?’
Reflections, Inflections, Deflections
in Journal of Legal Anthropology
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John Comaroff
John Comaroff
Harvard University jcomaroff@fas.harvard.edu
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Does anthropology matter to law? As phrased, this provocation, worthy of address though it certainly is, may ultimately be unanswerable. The reason? Because, like all questions of this sort, it harbours others within it. Precisely which ‘anthropology’? ‘Law’ as what? As everyday practice, as theorised praxis, as pedagogy, as politics by other means? What, moreover, counts as mattering? And from where, in particular, is the provocation being posed? All these questions, patently, make a difference.