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Lawyers, Anthropologists, and the Study of Law: Encounters in the New Guinea Highlands

Legal anthropology, though ostensibly an interdisciplinary field, occasionally has the aspect of a tribal war between lawyers and anthropologists, with members of each discipline misunderstanding, misconstruing, and refusing to acknowledge the contributions of the other. This bellicose metaphor is prompted, in large part, by the experience of reading Gordon and Meggitt's Law and Order in the New Guinea Highlands: Encounters with Enga, a work that is both a discussion of tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea and another salvo in the continuing academic wars. The authors' attacks on lawyers and legal scholarship are as fierce as an Enga raid. Everything lawyers say enrages Gordon and Meggitt. They quote with approval Ivan Illich's dictum that law is the "disabling profession" (at 241) and assert that "law in the third world is the bastard child of neocolonialism and professionalism" (at 240). They accuse lawyers of wearing "ideological blinders" caused by "the constraints of their profession" (at 238). Lawyers of every political perspective come in for equal vituperation (at 5-7). The