Law's Fictions, State-Society Relations and the Anthropological Imagination—Pathways out of Africa: Introduction

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  • Eric Worby Yale University
  • Blair Rutherford University of Regina

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Eric Worby, Yale University

Eric Worby's research has focussed on agrarian commoditization, property relations, ethnicity and the state and development discourse and practice in southern Africa and south Asia. He has been a researcher with the Centre for Applied Social Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe in 1988-89, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow with the Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 1992-94 and a member of the Department of Anthropology at McGill University from 1994-96. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and a member of the African Studies Council at Yale University.

Blair Rutherford, University of Regina

Blair Rutherford is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Regina. He received his doctorate from McGill University in 1996, carrying out research on the politics of resource access for commercial farm workers in Zimbabwe. He recently was a consultant at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, carrying out research on the role of civil society organizations in social development.

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2022-06-07

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Worby, E., & Rutherford, B. (2022). Law’s Fictions, State-Society Relations and the Anthropological Imagination—Pathways out of Africa: Introduction. Anthropologica, 39(1-2), 65–69. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2052

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Vol. 39 No. 1-2 (1997)

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Fictions of Law

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