The Generation Path and Dilemma of Interdisciplinary Law:Taking Legal Anthropology as an Example
According to the basic mode of knowledge production,the path of interdisciplinary research should include the intersection of three elements:research objects,research methods,and research results.From the perspective of research objects,science of law,which enjoys a long history,has long completed its disciplinary construction,and due to disciplinary classification and resource cutting,anthropology is also paying attention to and studying legal phenomena.In terms of research methods,in the first half of the 20th century,law and anthropology achieved their first successful cooperation.Anthropology created the"trouble-cases method"based on the"case study"method of law,laying a solid foundation for the study of legal ethnography.In terms of research results,after World War II,the quantity and quality of legal anthropology works gradually increased,and related works also received attention and recognition from anthropological journals and law schools.Through the introduction of the above three aspects,it can be found that law and anthropology have achieved interdisciplinary significance in terms of research objects,methods,achievements,and etc.However,strangely enough,many scholars insist that legal anthropology is a branch of anthropology rather than an interdisciplinary field of anthropology and law.The main reason for this is that anthropology has only unilaterally accepted the objects,methods,and achievements of law.The key to promoting interdisciplinary research lies in the sharing of research objects,methods,and achievements.Contemporary China should draw on the experience and lessons of foreign countries,and combine China's practice to promote the true intersection and integration of anthropology and law from three aspects:objects,methods,and achievements,so as to better integrate and promote the comprehensive practice of rule of law in legal academic research.
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