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Anthropology on trial : exploring the laws of anthropological expertise

Zenker, Olaf

In: International Journal of Law in Context, 2016, vol. 12, no. 3, p. 293-311

This paper explores the role of anthropological expertise in shaping the outcome of legal proceedings under conditions of cultural diversity. Taking the state-driven land-restitution process in postapartheid South Africa as its point of reference, the text reflects upon the work of anthropological experts in a number of cases and shows how their theoretical and political stances shaped the...