Cultural Expertise

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the subject of cultural expertise, addressing its theoretical developments, ethical debates, regulatory frameworks, and practices.

Autorentext

Livia Holden is Research Director at the CNRS, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, and Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Anthropological Institute of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Inhalt

Introduction Part 1. Theories 1. Cultural expertise without cultural expertise 2. Cultural expertise before cultural expertise 3. Toward cultural expertise 4. The definitions of cultural expertise Part 2. Laws 5. Cultural expertise in common law and civil law legal systems 6. The legal procedures governing cultural expertise 7. The ethics of cultural expertise Part 3. Practices 8. Cultural expertise and the professionalisation of anthropology 9. The composition of an expert report of cultural expertise 10. The questions asked to cultural experts 11. Cultural experts in action. Conclusions