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Anthropology
New anthropology study findings reported from University of Kent
February 7th, 2009
According to recent research published in the journal American Anthropologist, "The ''cultural defense'' in criminal law presents anthropologists with an instance of culture being used as a particular sort of tool, in this case, a tool for revealing the intentions of a defendant." "In deploying culture instrumentally, courts in the United States and the United Kingdom constitute their other instruments and indeed their own environments as noncultural. By comparison, courts in Papua New Guinea do not use culture as a means of discovering intentions; indeed, it can be argued that although ''custom'' is enshrined in the Constitutional law of the country, ''culture''...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-02-07)
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