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Hybrid Pathways to Orthodoxy in Brunei Darussalam: Bureaucratised Exorcism, Scientisation and the Mainstreaming of Deviant-Declared Practices

open access: yesJournal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2018
This article investigates the bureaucratisation of Islam in Brunei and its interlinkages with socio-cultural changes. It elucidates how realisations of state-enforced Islamic orthodoxy and purification produce locally unique meanings, while ...
Dominik M. Müller
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Anthropology and ownership acts: Between community and property

open access: yesRevista de Antropología Social, 2015
The author reviews the research methodologies that relate Anthropology and Law based in her experience as a researcher in the area of property relations.
Lidia Montesinos Llinares
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A novel method for pair-matching using three-dimensional digital models of bone:mesh-to-mesh value comparison [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The commingling of human remains often hinders forensic/physical anthropologists during the identification process, as there are limited methods to accurately sort these remains.
Frelat, Melanie   +5 more
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Editorial Foreword IJSLS Volume 4 Number 1

open access: yesThe Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies
The late “Ibu” Keebet von Benda-Beckmann made a significant contribution to the development of legal anthropology, particularly in Indonesia, where she is regarded as a pioneer of the field.
Sulistyowati Irianto
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‘If a picture paints a thousand words …’:the development of human identification techniques in forensic anthropology and their implications for human rights in the criminal process [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Newly developed techniques in forensic anthropology offer great potential to assist in identifying, and ultimately convicting, perpetrators of serious sexual assaults, particularly those involving young children.
Ferguson, Pamela, Raitt, Fiona
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Global Legal Pluralism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Some challenges of legal globalization closely resemble those formulated earlier for legal pluralism: the irreducible plurality of legal orders, the coexistence of domestic state law with other legal orders, the absence of a hierarchically superior ...
Michaels, Ralf
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The Post-2015 European Border Regime. New Approaches in a Shifting Field

open access: yesArchivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, 2019
Against the background of our recent ethnographic research project on the European border regime in South-East Europe in 2016, the article calls for a re-visiting of established paradigms and approaches in border studies. The article assesses established
Sabine Hess, Bernd Kasparek
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Little Black Boxes: Legal Anthropology and the Politics of Autonomy in Tort Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
[Excerpt] Law’s interdisciplinary turn toward social sciences suggests a growing realization that jurists may not be independently equipped to explain the world in and upon which they act.
Tejani, Riaz
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Skeletal lesions consistent with tuberculosis in an adolescent from Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan, Egypt (Late Period, 664–525 BCE)

open access: yesAntropologia Portuguesa
Tuberculosis has been well established in Ancient Egypt and is defined as an endemic disease during dynastic times. In several tombs of the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa (QH) in Aswan, Egypt, unequivocal cases of tuberculosis (Pott’s disease) have been ...
Ángel Rubio Salvador   +7 more
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Theorizing Mediation: Lessons Learned from Legal Anthropology

open access: yesUtrecht Law Review, 2016
Since the 1990s, there has been an increasing interest in mediation in the Netherlands, as part of a set of ‘alternative dispute resolution’ methods.
Marc Simon Thomas
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