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Law and Anthropology Outlines, Issues, and Suggestions Druckerei C. H . Beck .................Fikentscher, Phil.-hist..................... Abh. Heft 132/08 Medien mit Zukunft Revision, 24.02.2009 Fehler! Kein Text mit angegebener Formatvorlage im Dokument. 3 BAYERISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN PHILOSOPHISCH-HISTORISCHE KLASSE ABHANDLUNGEN · NEUE FOLGE, HEFT 132 Revision Wolfgang Fikentscher Law and Anthropology Outlines, Issues, and Suggestions MÜNCHEN 2009 VERLAG DER BAYERISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN IN KOMMISSION BEIM VERLAG C. H. BECK MÜNCHEN Druckerei C. H . Beck .................Fikentscher, Phil.-hist..................... Abh. Heft 132/08 Medien mit Zukunft Revision, 24.02.2009 4 Fehler! Kein Text mit angegebener Formatvorlage im Dokument. The hardcover version of this book is available from Bayerische Akademie der Wissen- schaften, Alfons-Goppel-Str. 11, 80539 Munich, Germany (phone: 49–89–23031–1138), in cooperation with Verlag C. H. Beck, Wilhelmstr. 9, 80 801 Munich, Germany (phone: 49– 89–38189–0). In conformity with § 52 a German copyright law (concerning public access to teaching and research), digital versions of individual abridged chapters may be read and/ or downloaded at http://works.bepress.com/wolfgang_fikentscher. A download may only be used for personal study or research and may not be distributed in any form. ISSN 0005 710x ISBN 978 3 7696 0977 6 © Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München 2008 Druck und Bindung: Druckerei C. H. Beck, Nördlingen Gedruckt auf säurefreiem, alterungsbeständigem Papier (hergestellt aus chlorfrei gebleichtem Zellstoff) Printed in Germany Druckerei C. H . Beck .................Fikentscher, Phil.-hist..................... Abh. Heft 132/08 Medien mit Zukunft Revision, 24.02.2009 5 Wolfgang Fikentscher, Dr. jur. (Munich), LL.M. (Ann Arbor, Michigan), Dr. jur. h. c. (Zurich), Professor of civil, commercial, intellectual property and comparative law since 1958 at the universities of Münster/Westphalia, Tübingen, and Munich. Since 1996 Professor emeritus. Research coodinator for technology transfer to developing countries and antitrust law, Max- Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich. Consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, and UN institutions involved in development aid to Third World countries. Member, Center for Human Studies, University of Munich. Chair, Commission for Studies in Cultural Anthropology, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Faculty, Parmenides Foundation for the Study of Thinking, Munich; Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced of Study (NIAS) at Wassenaar/Netherlands (1970/71), Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1992/93, 1995/96, and 2002), and Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research (since 1992). Visit- ing Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (1962 and 1966), University of Michigan School of Law, Ann Arbor (1966 and 1987), Yale University Law School and Department of Anthropology (1986), University of Nanjing, PR China (1993), and University of California School of Law at Berkeley (1980/81, 1988, 1992, 1996–2000). Ethnographic fieldwork (since 1980; since 1988 with Robert D. Cooter) on the laws of North American Indian tribes and pueblos, and aboriginal tribes of Taiwan. Author of „Methoden des Rechts in vergleichender Darstellung“, 5 vol. 1975–1977, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck; „Die Freiheit und ihr Paradox“, Gräfelfing 1997: FAZ/Resch; „Culture, Law and Economics: Three Berkeley Lectures“, Berne & Durham, NC, 2004: Stämpfli & Carolina Academic Press. Max-Planck Research Prize 1994 (with Robert D. Cooter) for fieldwork in the anthropology of law. Revision Druckerei C. H . Beck .................Fikentscher, Phil.-hist..................... Abh. Heft 132/08 Medien mit Zukunft Revision, 24.02.2009 6 Druckerei C. H . Beck .................Fikentscher, Phil.-hist..................... Abh. Heft 132/08 Medien mit Zukunft Revision, 24.02.2009 7 “… anthropological approaches to the law are very likely to become the foundation of jurisprudence in the new century” Manfred O. Hinz, Jurisprudence and Anthropology, 26 Anthropology Southern Africa 114–118 (2003), at 114 anthropology is “… the most scientific of the humanities, the most humanist of the sciences …” Eric Wolf, Anthropology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1964: Prentice Hall, at 988 “A nation’s strength is in its culture” Johan Vilhelm Snellman (1806–1881), Finnish politician and philosopher, founder of Finnish currency, modern economy and Finnish as Finnland’s language, Senator and Chief of Financial Administration when Finnland was under Russian rule, in a conversation with Czar Alexander II Druckerei C. H . Beck .................Fikentscher, Phil.-hist..................... Abh. Heft 132/08 Medien mit Zukunft Revision, 24.02.2009 8 ((Geleitwort)) Druckerei C. H . Beck .................Fikentscher, Phil.-hist..................... Abh. Heft 132/08 Medien mit Zukunft Revision, 25.02.2009 Contents 9 Revision Contents Contents CONTENTS Contents ...................................................................................................................... 9 Preface ......................................................................................................................... 19 Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................ 25 List of cases .................................................................................................................. 27 List of illustrations ........................................................................................................ 28 Table of Abbreviations .................................................................................................. 29 Part One: Anthropology of law in general Chapter 1: Anthropology of law as a science I. Concepts and issues ............................................................................................. 31 1. Anthropology, ethnography, and ethnology of law .......................................... 31 2. Issues ............................................................................................................. 32 3. Theory, research, and applied anthropology .................................................... 34 4. Two approaches to the anthropology of law .................................................... 35 5. Anthropology of law and morals ..................................................................... 36 6. Types of cases ................................................................................................. 37 II. Literature ............................................................................................................. 37 1. Introductory works ........................................................................................ 37 2. In-depth-study literature ................................................................................ 39 3. Chapter bibliographies ................................................................................... 42 4. Footnotes ...................................................................................................... 42 5. General bibliographies .................................................................................... 42 6. Periodicals (selected) ...................................................................................... 42 III. Anthropology of law as a social science ................................................................. 43 1. The concept of science against the background of the Leibniz-Hume-Kant debate ............................................................................................................ 43 2. History and system. Diachronic vs. synchronic research .................................. 44 3. Anthropology and related fields ...................................................................... 45 4. Anthropological epistemology ........................................................................ 47 5. Ontology and epistemology. An anthropology of knowledge .......................... 53 6. The role of writing ........................................................................................ 54 7. Judgments (= propositions) in anthropology ................................................... 55 8. The nature of anthropological reasoning ......................................................... 55 9. Results of Chapter 1 III ................................................................................. 57 IV. The anthropological meaning of law .................................................................... 57 1. Issues ............................................................................................................. 57 2. Legal and other social norms .......................................................................... 57 3. Towards an anthropological definition of law .................................................. 58 4. Pospíšil’s definition of law ............................................................................... 61 Druckerei C. H . Beck .................Fikentscher, Phil.-hist..................... Abh. Heft 132/08 Medien mit Zukunft Revision, 25.02.2009 10 Contents 5. A new definition? .......................................................................................... 66 6. Definition of law, summarized ........................................................................ 67 V. Legal pluralism ....................................................................................................
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