Difficulté et nécessité de l’anthropologie du droit

Abstract

This article aims to deepen the understanding of the Western legal tradition with the instruments of cultural anthropology. Recalling the properties of legal reason, it opens the way for a new relationship between law and anthropology. It also warns against the temptation to extend the domination of this Western reason over other societies and cultures.

Keywords

• anthropology
• West
• legal fiction
• legal culture
• case method