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Peter Just

Prof. of Anthropology

B.A. University of Chicago
Ph. D. University of Pennsylvania

MAJOR INTERESTS

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

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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