几乎早在20年前,里斯曼(Riesman)就发表了一篇文章,批评法学家的法律中心主义观点,并倡议人类学家研究美国法律组织的结构、作用,以及法学家的活动。但是,从事这种研究的人类学家寥寥无几。事实上,只有极少数人类学家把一般性的法律研究作为自己特殊的研究范畴,也许我国有十几位人类学家做到了这一点。尽管如此,如今这个领域正吸引着越来越多的人。只要浏览一下近几年关于民族志研究专题文章的目录和素引,就会看出:一方面,大部分人类学家对他们所研究的民族的法律置之不理。相反,却有许多章节涉及该 Almost as early as two decades ago, Riesman published an article criticizing jurists’ jurisprudence and advocated that anthropologists study the structure and function of American legal organizations and the activities of jurists. However, there are very few anthropologists engaged in this kind of research. In fact, only a handful of anthropologists regard general legal research as their particular area of ​​research. Perhaps a dozen anthropologists in our country have done this. In spite of this, more and more people are now attracted to this area. Just look through the catalogs and primes of articles on ethnographic research in recent years and you will see that on the one hand, most anthropologists ignore the national laws that they study. On the contrary, there are many chapters dealing with this