Marie-Claire Foblets is Director of the Department of Law & Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany and Honorary Professor at the universities of Leuven (Belgium), Halle (Germany), and Leipzig (Germany).Maria Sapignoli is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan (Italy) and Cooperation Partner in the Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.Brian Donahoe is Senior Scientific Editor of the Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.

• Preface and Acknowledgements viiContributors ixLegal Practitioners and Anthropologists in Dialogue: Returning to the Spirit of Complementarity and Collaboration 1BRIAN DONAHOE, MARIE-CLAIRE FOBLETS, AND MARIA SAPIGNOLIPART IAnthropologists and Lawyers in Conversation: Case Studies 211 Collection and Use of Country of Origin Information in the United Kingdom’s Refugee Status Determination Process: The Case of Sri Lanka 23ANTHONY PATERSON AND ANTHONY GOOD2 Depositions and Dilemmas: Anthropological Collaboration with Lawyers on Indigenous Legal Cases in Botswana 50GORDON BENNETT AND ROBERT K HITCHCOCK3 Using and Refusing Indigenous Rights Law in Southern Chile 75CHARLES HALE AND JOSE AYLWIN4 Evolving Roles of the Cultural Expert: Anthrolegal Praxis, Friction, and the Pursuit of Justice in the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal Proceedings 91BARBARA ROSE JOHNSTONPART IIReflections on the Use of Expertise 1215 Contributions of Ethnography of Science to Judicial Assessment of Environmental Expert Testimony: Case Study from Risk Assessment in the Marine Environment 123MELANIE WIBER, DONNA CURTIS MAILLET, AND ALLAIN BARNETT6 The Predicament of Expertise in the Revival of Indigenous Legal Traditions 136RONALD NIEZEN7 Observations from Working as a Legal Anthropologist in the Customary Law Ascertainment Project of Namibia 143MANFRED HINZ8 Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Asylum Cases: Impressions from Legal-Anthropological Collaboration 153KATIA BIANCHINI AND SOPHIE ANDREETTA9 The Ignorance of an Expert Witness 164ANNIKA RABO10 Reflections on Anthropological ‘Expert’ Reports in UK Legal Asylum Cases 177DEEMA KANEFF11 Culture as a ‘Matter of Fact’?: Reflections on a First-time ‘Cultural Defence’ in Court 190HARIKA DAUTH12 Beyond Case-by-Case Cultural Expertise 207ILENIA RUGGIUIndex 217

Marie-Claire Foblets is Director of the Department of Law & Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany and Honorary Professor at the universities of Leuven (Belgium), Halle (Germany), and Leipzig (Germany).Maria Sapignoli is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan (Italy) and Cooperation Partner in the Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.Brian Donahoe is Senior Scientific Editor of the Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.

• Preface and Acknowledgements viiContributors ixLegal Practitioners and Anthropologists in Dialogue: Returning to the Spirit of Complementarity and Collaboration 1BRIAN DONAHOE, MARIE-CLAIRE FOBLETS, AND MARIA SAPIGNOLIPART IAnthropologists and Lawyers in Conversation: Case Studies 211 Collection and Use of Country of Origin Information in the United Kingdom’s Refugee Status Determination Process: The Case of Sri Lanka 23ANTHONY PATERSON AND ANTHONY GOOD2 Depositions and Dilemmas: Anthropological Collaboration with Lawyers on Indigenous Legal Cases in Botswana 50GORDON BENNETT AND ROBERT K HITCHCOCK3 Using and Refusing Indigenous Rights Law in Southern Chile 75CHARLES HALE AND JOSE AYLWIN4 Evolving Roles of the Cultural Expert: Anthrolegal Praxis, Friction, and the Pursuit of Justice in the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal Proceedings 91BARBARA ROSE JOHNSTONPART IIReflections on the Use of Expertise 1215 Contributions of Ethnography of Science to Judicial Assessment of Environmental Expert Testimony: Case Study from Risk Assessment in the Marine Environment 123MELANIE WIBER, DONNA CURTIS MAILLET, AND ALLAIN BARNETT6 The Predicament of Expertise in the Revival of Indigenous Legal Traditions 136RONALD NIEZEN7 Observations from Working as a Legal Anthropologist in the Customary Law Ascertainment Project of Namibia 143MANFRED HINZ8 Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Asylum Cases: Impressions from Legal-Anthropological Collaboration 153KATIA BIANCHINI AND SOPHIE ANDREETTA9 The Ignorance of an Expert Witness 164ANNIKA RABO10 Reflections on Anthropological ‘Expert’ Reports in UK Legal Asylum Cases 177DEEMA KANEFF11 Culture as a ‘Matter of Fact’?: Reflections on a First-time ‘Cultural Defence’ in Court 190HARIKA DAUTH12 Beyond Case-by-Case Cultural Expertise 207ILENIA RUGGIUIndex 217

Marie-Claire Foblets is Director of the Department of Law & Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany and Honorary Professor at the universities of Leuven (Belgium), Halle (Germany), and Leipzig (Germany).Maria Sapignoli is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan (Italy) and Cooperation Partner in the Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.Brian Donahoe is Senior Scientific Editor of the Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.

• Preface and Acknowledgements viiContributors ixLegal Practitioners and Anthropologists in Dialogue: Returning to the Spirit of Complementarity and Collaboration 1BRIAN DONAHOE, MARIE-CLAIRE FOBLETS, AND MARIA SAPIGNOLIPART IAnthropologists and Lawyers in Conversation: Case Studies 211 Collection and Use of Country of Origin Information in the United Kingdom’s Refugee Status Determination Process: The Case of Sri Lanka 23ANTHONY PATERSON AND ANTHONY GOOD2 Depositions and Dilemmas: Anthropological Collaboration with Lawyers on Indigenous Legal Cases in Botswana 50GORDON BENNETT AND ROBERT K HITCHCOCK3 Using and Refusing Indigenous Rights Law in Southern Chile 75CHARLES HALE AND JOSE AYLWIN4 Evolving Roles of the Cultural Expert: Anthrolegal Praxis, Friction, and the Pursuit of Justice in the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal Proceedings 91BARBARA ROSE JOHNSTONPART IIReflections on the Use of Expertise 1215 Contributions of Ethnography of Science to Judicial Assessment of Environmental Expert Testimony: Case Study from Risk Assessment in the Marine Environment 123MELANIE WIBER, DONNA CURTIS MAILLET, AND ALLAIN BARNETT6 The Predicament of Expertise in the Revival of Indigenous Legal Traditions 136RONALD NIEZEN7 Observations from Working as a Legal Anthropologist in the Customary Law Ascertainment Project of Namibia 143MANFRED HINZ8 Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Asylum Cases: Impressions from Legal-Anthropological Collaboration 153KATIA BIANCHINI AND SOPHIE ANDREETTA9 The Ignorance of an Expert Witness 164ANNIKA RABO10 Reflections on Anthropological ‘Expert’ Reports in UK Legal Asylum Cases 177DEEMA KANEFF11 Culture as a ‘Matter of Fact’?: Reflections on a First-time ‘Cultural Defence’ in Court 190HARIKA DAUTH12 Beyond Case-by-Case Cultural Expertise 207ILENIA RUGGIUIndex 217