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Legal Uses of Anthropology in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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This chapter sheds light on the long-standing history of the relationship between law and the human and social sciences in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France. This story has often been reduced to its most recent and academic development, that is, legal anthropology. However, focusing on this strictly contemporary, academic definition of anthropology risks overlooking the many and varied ways of thinking that, over the past two centuries and more, have shaped the relationship between law and the study of humanity. The authors suggest that such an approach obscures the depth and the variety of forms that this relationship took over time. This chapter documents the various ways that legal scholars in France—over the course of two centuries marked by the rise of codification and legal positivism—drew upon history, philology, ethnology, physical anthropology, and sociology, all in the pursuit of a more profound understanding of homo juridicus.
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hal-04614116 , version 1 (20-06-2024)

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Frédéric Audren, Laetitia Guerlain. Legal Uses of Anthropology in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Marie-Claire Foblets; Mark Goodale; Maria Sapignoli; Olaf Zenker. The Oxford Handbook of Law & Anthropology, Oxford University Press, pp.228-242, 2021, 9780198840534. ⟨10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198840534.013.3⟩. ⟨hal-04614116⟩
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