Peter Just

Professor of Anthropology

[email protected]

413-597-2552

Hollander Hall Rm 325

Education

B.A. University of Chicago (1972)
M.A. University of Pennsylvania (1979)
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology (1986)

Areas of Expertise

MAJOR INTERESTS

Law and dispute settlement
Religion and magic
Cross-cultural study of personality and emotions
Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia

Courses

ANTH 101(F) LEC

How To Be Human

ANTH 233 / ASIA 233 / REL 253 SEM

Spiritual Crossroads: Religious Life in Southeast Asia (not offered 2021/22)

ANTH 234 / WGSS 234 SEM

Masculinities (not offered 2021/22)

ANTH 240(S) SEM

Work as a Cultural System

ANTH 328(F) TUT

Emotions and the Self

ANTH 331 LEC

Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Magic (not offered 2021/22)

ANTH 334 / COMP 334 / JWST 334 / REL 334(S) SEM

Imagining Joseph

ANTH 340 SEM

Artisan and Connoisseur (not offered 2021/22)

ANTH 391 / INTR 391 SEM

Insurgencies: Revolts, Revolutions, Wars of National Liberation, and Jihads (not offered 2021/22)

Scholarship/Creative Work

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Dead Goats and Broken Betrothals: Liability and Equity in Dou Donggo Law.”American Ethnologist 17: 75-90, 1990. Oxford University Press, 1988
“History, Power, Ideology, and Culture: Current Directions in the Anthropology of Law.” Law and Society Review 26 (2): 373-411, 1992
Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2000, co-authored with John D. Monaghan
Dou Donggo Justice: Conflict & Morality in an Indonesian Society. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001
“Law, Ritual and Order.” In K. von Benda-Beckmann and F. Pirie, eds., Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives, Berghahn Books, 2007