This course considers the cultural framing of concepts of personhood, agency, and communal responsibility as well as justice, systems of law, and rights discourses across national contexts. Law is studied both through its formal and informal enactments, and law and justice serve as lenses for thinking about issues of power, resistance, and generational change as well as the negotiation of notions of morality and cultural citizenship, or belonging. We will learn about cross-cultural law and justice through ethnographic examples focused on everyday practice.

This course considers the cultural framing of concepts of personhood, agency, and communal responsibility as well as justice, systems of law, and rights discourses across national contexts. Law is studied both through its formal and informal enactments, and law and justice serve as lenses for thinking about issues of power, resistance, and generational change as well as the negotiation of notions of morality and cultural citizenship, or belonging. We will learn about cross-cultural law and justice through ethnographic examples focused on everyday practice.