Education
B.A. University of Chicago (1972)
M.A. University of Pennsylvania (1979)
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology (1986)
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 233 / ASST 233 / REL 253
Spiritual Crossroads: Religious Life in Southeast Asia (not offered 2020/21)ANTH 234 / WGSS 234
Masculinities (not offered 2020/21)ANTH 240
Work as a Cultural System (not offered 2020/21)ANTH 328 T
Emotions and the Self (not offered 2020/21)ANTH 331
Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Magic (not offered 2020/21)ANTH 334 / COMP 334 / JWST 334 / REL 334
Imagining Joseph (not offered 2020/21)ANTH 340
Artisan and Connoisseur (not offered 2020/21)ANTH 391 / INTR 391
Insurgencies: Revolts, Revolutions, Wars of National Liberation, and Jihads (not offered 2020/21)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
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