Chapter 8 Links and Further Reading

  1. Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (https://politicalandlegalanthro.org/)

A section of the American Anthropological Association, this organization is dedicated to fields of political and legal anthropology, including nationalism, citizenship, political and legal processes, the state, civil society, colonialism and post-colonial public spheres, multiculturalism, globalism, immigration, refugees, and media politics.

  1. Richard Lee’s “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari” (http://sociology.morrisville.edu/readings/ANTH101/EatingChristmas-Lee.pdf)

This famous article illustrates political anthropology regarding !Kung San informal social controls. Using humor and astute participant observation, Lee transports the reader to a distant time and place when informal political processes became clear to him in his fieldwork.

  1. The Association for the Anthropology of Policy (asap.americananthro.org)

A section of the American Anthropological Association, this group promotes the anthropological study of policy and seeks to advance the contributions of the anthropology of policy to theory and method in anthropology, as well as to research in public policy.

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