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

Note: courses in gray are not offered this academic year.

ANTH 101(F)

How to Be Human

ANTH 233 / ASST 233 / REL 253

Spiritual Crossroads: Religious Life in Southeast Asia

ANTH 234 / WGSS 234

Masculinities

ANTH 240(S)

Work as a Cultural System

ANTH 328 T(F)

Emotions and the Self

ANTH 331

Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Magic

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

Imagining Joseph

ANTH 340

Artisan and Connoisseur

ANTH 391 / INTR 391

Insurgencies: Revolts, Revolutions, Wars of National Liberation, and Jihads

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