Sally Engle Merry

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Sally Engle Merry

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PhD Anthropology Columbia University
Masters Anthropology Columbia University
Bachelors Anthropology Bryn Mawr College

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According to Wikipedia, Sally Starr Engle Merry was an American anthropologist. She was the Silver Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the New York University School of Law. In the past, Merry had also been president of the American Ethnological Society, the Law and Society Association, and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. She served as a member of the editorial board of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

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Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle (2006) (941)
Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working-Class Americans (1990) (526)
Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (2005) (476)
The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking (2016) (463)
Vernacularization on the ground: local uses of global women's rights in Peru, China, India and the United States (2009) (435)
Measuring the World (2011) (412)
Measuring the World Indicators, Human Rights, and Global Governance (2011) (366)
Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers (1981) (353)
Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance (2010) (300)
Anthropology, Law and Transnational Processes (1992) (206)
Rethinking Gossip and Scandal (1984) (197)
Rights Talk and the Experience of Law: Implementing Women's Human Rights to Protection from Violence (2003) (196)
Spatial Govemmentality and the New Urban Social Order: Controlling Gender Violence through Law (2001) (195)
Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective (2008) (190)
Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Classification and Rankings (2012) (185)
Ideological Production: The Making of Community Mediation (1988) (181)
Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas (2010) (181)
Mediator Settlement Strategies (1986) (178)
The World of Indicators: The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification (2015) (177)
Human Rights Law and the Demonization of Culture (And Anthropology Along the Way) (2003) (175)
Constructing a Global Law-Violence against Women and the Human Rights System (2003) (159)
Defensible Space Undefended (1981) (158)
Resistance and the cultural power of law (1995) (124)
Going to Court: Strategies of Dispute Management in an American Urban Neighborhood (1979) (119)
The quiet power of indicators: Measuring governance, corruption, and rule of law (2015) (108)
WHAT DO PLAINTIFFS WANT? REEXAMINING THE CONCEPT OF DISPUTE* (1987) (104)
The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of Community Mediation in the United States (1994) (101)
New Legal Realism and the Ethnography of Transnational Law (2006) (98)
Rights, Religion, and Community: Approaches to Violence against Women in the Context of Globalization (2001) (93)
Introduction: Global Governance by Indicators (2012) (92)
Law From Below: Women's Human Rights and Social Movements in New York City (2010) (90)
everyday understandings of the law in working‐class America (1986) (84)
Culture and Rights: Changing rights, changing culture (2001) (81)
Engaged Anthropology : Diversity and Dilemmas : An Introduction to Supplement 2 (2010) (78)
Anthropology and International Law (2006) (74)
Technologies of truth in the anthropology of conflict: AES/APLA Presidential Address, 2013 (2014) (73)
From Law and Colonialism to Law and Globalization (2003) (64)
Measuring the World: Indicators, Human Rights, and Global Governance (2009) (60)
The Social Organization of Mediation in Nonindustrial Societies: Implications for Informal Community Justice in America (1982) (60)
The Female Inheritance Movement in Hong Kong (2005) (56)
Quantification and the Paradox of Measurement (2015) (51)
Human Rights and Transnational Culture: Regulating Gender Violence through Global Law (2006) (43)
Ideology in the language of judges: How judges practice law, politics, and courtroom control (2008) (43)
What is Legal Culture? An Anthropological Perspective (2012) (42)
Protest, policy, and the problem of violence against women: A cross-national comparison, S. Laurel Weldon. Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA (2002), By Sally Engle Merry, Wellesley College (2004) (42)
Retroaction: how indicators feed back onto quantified actors (2015) (41)
Mending Walls and Building Fences: Constructing the Private Neighborhood (1993) (39)
Spatial Governmentality and the New Urban Social Order : Controlling Gender Violence Through (2008) (38)
Crowding, Conflict, and Neighborhood Regulation (1987) (37)
Gender violence and legally engendered selves (1995) (36)
Law, Culture, and Cultural Appropriation (1998) (35)
Disputing without Culture (1987) (33)
Popular Justice and the Ideology of Social Transformation (1992) (33)
Colonizing Hawai'I: The Cultural Power of Law (2020) (33)
The Vernacularization of Women’s Human Rights (2017) (33)
Global Human Rights and Local Social Movements in a Legally Plural World (1997) (28)
The Seductions of Quantification (2016) (28)
International law and sociolegal scholarship: Toward a spatial global legal pluralism (2007) (27)
Legal Vernacularization and Ka Ho'okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli, The People's International Tribunal, Hawai'i 1993 (1996) (27)
The Sustainable Development Goals Confront the Infrastructure of Measurement (2019) (26)
Introduction: The local-global life of indicators: Law, power, and resistance (2015) (24)
Colonial and Postcolonial Law (2008) (24)
Language, Law, and Social Meanings: Linguistic/Anthropological Contributions to the Study of Law@@@Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working Class Americans@@@Rules Versus Relationships: The Ethnography of Legal Discourse (1992) (23)
Ethnography in the Archives (2002) (23)
Culture, Power, and the Discourse of Law (1992) (22)
Chapter 4. Making Women’s Human Rights in the Vernacular: Navigating the Culture/Rights Divide (2011) (22)
Global legal pluralism and the temporality of soft law (2014) (19)
Anthropology and Activism: Researching Human Rights across Porous Boundaries (2005) (18)
Crossing Boundaries: Ethnography in the Twenty‐First Century (2000) (17)
Introduction: Conditions of vulnerability (2007) (17)
Relating to the Subjects of Human Rights: The Culture of Agency in Human Rights Discourse (2009) (17)
The Discourses of Mediation and the Power of Naming (1990) (17)
“Secularism is a human right!”: double-binds of Buddhism, democracy, and identity in Nepal (2007) (16)
Inequality and Rights: Commentary on Michael McCann's “The Unbearable Lightness of Rights” (2014) (16)
Racial Integration in an Urban Neighborhood: The Social Organization of Strangers (1980) (15)
Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai'i (2004) (15)
Engaged anthropology: diversity and dilemmas. An introduction (2010) (15)
Anthropology and Activism (2005) (15)
Mediation in Families: A Study of the Children's Hearings Project. (1985) (14)
Kapi′olani at the brink: Dilemmas of historical ethnography in 19th‐century Hawai'i (2003) (14)
Hegemony and Culture in Historical Anthropology: A Review Essay on Jean and John L. Comaroff's Of Revelation and Revolution (2003) (14)
International Law and Justice Working Papers (2011) (14)
The Female Inheritance Movement in Hong Kong: Theorizing the Local/Global Interface (2005) (14)
Indicators and the Law: A Case Study of the Rule of Law Index (2015) (14)
The Politics of Gender Violence: Law Reform in Local and Global Places (2003) (12)
Law and Colonialism: Review Essay (1991) (12)
The new legal realism (2016) (11)
Commentary: Human-Rights Law and the Demonization of Culture (2003) (11)
Anthropology and the Study of Alternative Dispute Resolution (1984) (11)
Legal Pluralism in Practice (2013) (10)
The Quest for Measuring Development: The Role of the Indicator Bank (2015) (10)
Spirits of neoliberalism: ‘Competitiveness’ and ‘wellbeing’ indicators as rival orders of worth (2015) (10)
Firming up soft law: The impact of indicators on transnational human rights legal orders (2015) (9)
Governmentality and Gender Violence in Hawai‘i in Historical Perspective (2002) (8)
Cultural Dimensions of Power/Knowledge: The Challenges of Measuring Violence against Women (2016) (8)
Gender Justice and CEDAW: The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (2011) (8)
The culture and practice of mediation in parent-child conflicts (1987) (8)
Colonizing Hawai'I (2000) (8)
Human Rights Transformation in Practice (2018) (8)
Crime and Criminality: Historical Differences in Hawai'i (2002) (7)
Fluidity of Human Rights in Practice (2006) (7)
Colonial Law and Its Uncertainties (2010) (7)
Narrating Domestic Violence: Producing the “Truth' of Violence in 19th- and 20th-Century Hawaiian Courts (1994) (7)
Doing vernacularization: The encounter between global and local ideas about women's rights in Peru (2013) (7)
Commentary on Reviews of Human Rights and Gender Violence (2008) (7)
Race, Inequality, and Colonialism in the New World Order (2006) (7)
Human Rights Monitoring and the Question of Indicators (2014) (7)
Global Regulation and Local Political Struggles: Early Marriage in Northern Nigeria (2020) (6)
Indicators as a Technology of Governance (2009) (6)
Gender Violence: A Cultural Introduction (2009) (6)
Pluralizing Paradigms: From Gluckman to Foucault (1999) (5)
What Is the Rule of Law? Perspectives from Myanmar (2017) (5)
Legal Vernacularization and Transnational Culture: the Ka Ho'okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli, Hawai'i 1993 (1996) (5)
Remaking Women’s Human Rights in the Vernacular: The Resonance Dilemma (2019) (5)
Counting the uncountable: Constructing trafficking through measurement (2017) (5)
The Rule of Law and Authoritarian Rule: Legal Politics in Sudan (2016) (5)
Manipulating anonymity: Streetwalkers’ strategies for safety in the city* (1980) (4)
COMPARATIVE CRIMINALIZATION: CULTURAL MEANINGS OF ADULTERY AND GENDER VIOLENCE IN HAWAI'I IN 1850 AND 1990 (2002) (4)
Anthropology and Law (2012) (4)
Review of Mediation and Society: Conflict Management in Lebanon. by Cathie Witty (1983) (4)
The Children's Hearings Project Research Findings. A Summary Report. (1985) (4)
Law as Fair, Law as Help: The Texture of Legitimacy in American Society (1990) (4)
Mirrors of Justice: Beyond Compliance: Toward an Anthropological Understanding of International Justice (2009) (4)
Moving Beyond Ideology Critique to the Analysis of Practice (2002) (4)
The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of American Community Mediation (1993) (4)
Commentary on “Audit Culture Revisited: Rankings, Ratings, and the Reassembling of Society” Cris Shore and Susan Wright (2015) (4)
Indicators, Global Expertise, and a Local Political Drama: Producing and Deploying Corruption Perception Data in Post-Socialist Albania (2015) (3)
Financial indicators and the global financial crash (2015) (3)
The Politics of Islamic Law and Human Rights: Sudan's Rival Legal Systems (2016) (3)
The potential of ethnographic methods for human rights research (2017) (3)
The Social Organization of Law: Introductory Readings (2004) (3)
African Constitutionalism From the Bottom Up (2016) (3)
Stateless law: Before, inside and outside the law of the state (2016) (3)
Legal Pluralism and Development: Legal Pluralism and Legal Culture (2012) (3)
The New Legal Realism, Vol II: Studying Law Globally (2016) (3)
The limits of consent: Sex trafficking and the problem of international paternalism (2016) (2)
Comment on Comments (2004) (2)
The Changing Roles of Lawyers in China: State Bureaucrats, Market Brokers, and Political Activists (2016) (2)
Engaged Anthropology in the United States and its Relevance for World Anthropologies (2011) (2)
Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought: Colonialism, Post‐Colonialism, and Legal Theory (1994) (2)
Vernacularization in Action: Using Global Women's Human Rights Locally (2009) (2)
International Organizations and the Technologies of Governance (2018) (2)
Criminalization and Gender: The Changing Governance of Sexuality and Gender Violence in Hawai'i (2019) (2)
"The Culture of Judging," Review Essay on The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Islamic Society. Lawrence Rosen (1990) (2)
Empirical Legal Training in the U.S. Academy (2010) (2)
Human Rights Monitoring, State Compliance, and the Problem of Information (2016) (2)
Symposium on Violence between Intimates, Globalization, and the State (2003) (2)
Review of Between Kinship and the State: Social Security Law in Developing Countries. Franz von Benda-Beckman, Keebet von Benda-Beckman, E. Casino, F. Hirtz, G.R. Woodman, H.F. Zacher (eds.) (1990) (2)
A Roundtable on New Legal Realism, microanalysis of institutions, and the new governance: Exploring convergences and differences (2005) (2)
Climate change vulnerability indicators: from noise to signal (2015) (2)
Law and Disorder in the Postcolony. By Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, eds (2008) (2)
Human Rights in the United States: The Curious Resistance to Seeing Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Violation in the United States (2011) (2)
Sex trafficking and global governance in the context of Pacific mobility (2011) (2)
The meaning and management of danger in a high-crime urban neighborhood (1978) (1)
Pushing States to Prosecute Atrocity: The Inter-American Court and Positive Complementarity (2016) (1)
Jane Samson, Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands (2001) (1)
The Social Life of Measurement (2016) (1)
Review of Rouland, Legal Anthropology, Fitzpatrick, The Mythology of Modern Law, and Tamanaha, Understanding Law in Micronesia (1995) (1)
Globalizations past: From Lahaina to London in the 1820s (2018) (1)
Intellectual Property and the Creation of Global Rules (2016) (1)
Expertise and Quantification in Global Institutions (2017) (1)
If It Fits. 1978. A film by John Marshall (1982) (1)
Cultural Distance and Ethnic Boundaries in an Inner-City Neighborhood. (1977) (1)
Comment on "Bringing the Law Back In: Legal Rights and the Regulation of Indian-White Relations on Rosebud Reservation." Thomas Biolsi (1995) (1)
Conclusions: A Processual Approach to Transnational Legal Orders (2020) (1)
Crossing Boundaries: Methodological Challenges for Ethnography in the Twenty-first Century (2000) (1)
The Making of Human Rights Policy on Violence Against Women (2007) (1)
Ethnology: Black Players: The Secret World of Black Pimps. CHRISTINA MILNER and RICHARD MILNER, Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp. SUSAN HALL (1974) (1)
Battered Women & Feminist Lawmaking: Author Meets Readers (2002) (0)
The Politics of Culture: Race, Violence, and Democracy:The Politics of Culture: Race, Violence, and Democracy. (1998) (0)
Law: Anthropological Aspects (2015) (0)
Comment on "Reconciliation and Revenge in Post-Apartheid South Africa," by Richard Wilson (2000) (0)
Symposium, “Battered Women and Feminist Law Making: Author Meets Readers” (2002) (0)
Peter, Donald, Willie, Pat. 1988. Produced by Jim Kaufman and directed by Mike Majoros. 48 minutes, color (1989) (0)
The Deconstruction of Offshore (2016) (0)
Review of The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy. by Michael Herzfeld (1995) (0)
MAKING OF COMMUNITY MEDIATION (2016) (0)
An Anthropological Perspective on Legal Pluralism (2020) (0)
Legal Pluralism (2017) (0)
Poletown Lives 1983. A film by George Corsetti, Jeanie Wylie, and Richard Wieske (1984) (0)
Legal Pluralism (2017) (0)
Legal Pluralism (translated into Chinese) (1994) (0)
As We Revamp Our Communications and Publications Programs: It Is Time We Regain Our Role as Social Critics (2007) (0)
Book Review: Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants’ Struggle for US Residency (2003) (0)
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society (2021) (0)
Preface (2019) (0)
The Mediation Process in Family and Neighbourhood Disputes (1988) (0)
Call For Papers, 102nd Annual Meeting (2003) (0)
Preliminary Program: 2003 AAA Annual Meeting (2003) (0)
Anthropology and the Perils of Quantification (2019) (0)
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY (AES) BOARD MEETING (2012) (0)
Further Book Reviews : Roger Cotterell, Law's Community: Legal Theory in Sociological Perspective. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Oxford Socio-Legal Studies, 1995, 382 pp (1997) (0)
Epilogue: The Travels of Gender and Law (2013) (0)
Review of "If It Fits." John Marshall. (Documentary Educational) (1982) (0)
The Problem of Compliance and the Turn to Quantification (2020) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Social Courts in Theory and Practice: Yugoslav Workers' Courts in Comparative Perspective. Robert M. Hayden. (1992) (0)
"The Travels of Gender and Law.” Epilogue (2013) (0)
Review of Black Players: The Secret World of Black Pimps and Gentlemen of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp (1974) (0)
Review of "Poletown Lives!" (1984) (0)
What Is the Rule of Law? Perspectives from Myanmar (2017) (0)
Conflict Resolution vs Human Rights (2007) (0)
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (review) (2005) (0)
Publications Finance Update (2008) (0)
Under Construction: Making Homeland Security at the Local Level by Kerry B. Fosher (2011) (0)
Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking: Author Meets Readers, Elizabeth M. Schneider, Christine Harrington, Sally Engle Merry, Renee Romkens, & Marianne Wesson (2002) (0)
Statemaking at the Fringes of Development (1998) (0)
Völkerrecht (2011) (0)
Conclusions (2020) (0)
Early Pacific Encounters and Masculinity (2021) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGY AND AMERICAN COLONIALISM (1996) (0)
The Practice of Human Rights: Introduction (2007) (0)
‘Does Law Matter to Anthropology?’ (2018) (0)
ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE TRANSNATIONAL: MULTI-SITEDNESS AND BEYOND (2012) (0)
When Law and Social Science Diverge: Causation in the International Law of Incitement to Commit Genocide (2016) (0)
Review and Response of Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism, by Noenoe K Silva (2006) (0)
Subjects of Law, Objects of Politics (1999) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Review of The Mediators, by Deborah Kolb (1985) (0)
Governing through Indicators (2009) (0)
Conflict Resolution vs. Human Rights (Commentary) (2007) (0)
From The President: A Guide to the Perplexed: The AAA Annual Meeting Review Process (2003) (0)
THE GLOBAL TRAVEL OF WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS The Global Travel of Women’s Human Rights (2021) (0)
Review of The Politics of Culture: Race, Violence, and Democracy. Jung Min Choi, Karen A. Callaghan,and John W.Murphy (1998) (0)
Global Legal Pluralism (2007) (0)
No Applause, Just Throw Money. 1987. Produced and directed by Karen Goodman. 28 minutes (1989) (0)
Indicators (2022) (0)
Review of Sasson, Theodore, Crime Talk: How Citizens Construct a Social Problem (1996) (0)
Capitalist Transformation and Settler Colonialism: Theorizing the Interface (2021) (0)
Women Seeking Justice At the Intersection Between Vernacular and State Laws and Courts in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2016) (0)
Review of Social Courts in Yugoslavia by Robert Hayden (1992) (0)
Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru (review) (2013) (0)
Law, Anthropological Aspects (Revised Essay) (2013) (0)

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