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Association For Political And Legal Anthropology, Jan Hoffman French
Association For Political And Legal Anthropology, Jan Hoffman French
Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications
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.