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
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