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The legal life of anthropological theory: Limits to the ideal of being useful

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Critique of Anthropology

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Abstract

Critique of Anthropology, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 182-198, June 2026.
This article critically examines the impact of anthropological theory on land relations and chieftainship in the Marshall Islands. Anthropologists steeped in lineage theory developed models of a feudal system centred on land as private property that ...