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This chapter examines the anthropological study of law in Latin America. My goal here is threefold. First, I describe a key insight from anthropology about the way law and its normative cousins are constituted in Latin America by locating these processes within a more general, perhaps polemical, series of arguments about Latin American legality (and illegality). Second, I illustrate these baseline theoretical points through critical soundings in several areas which have drawn the attention of anthropologists of, and in, Latin America. It is simply not possible to present a comprehensive anthropological overview of law in Latin America, even if this were a stated intention; the anthropology of law in Latin America remains much too incipient for this.
An indispensable reference for all social scientists interested in Latin American regions. Summing Up: Essential.
