Justin B. Richland
About
(PhD, UCLA, 2004; JD, UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, 1996) Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, is a linguistic anthropologist whose areas of research interest include legal discourse analysis and semiotics, anthropology of law, and contemporary Native American law and politics. From 2005-2009 he served as Justice Pro Tempore of the Hopi Appellate Court, the highest court of the Hopi Nation. He is founding Chairman of the Board of The Nakwatsvewat Institute, Inc. a non-profit organization offering social justice services to native nations in the US. He currently serves as Co-Editor of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, the journal of the Association of Political and Legal Anthropologists.
Selected Works
Selected Publications
| Year | Title / Publications | |
|---|---|---|
| n.d. | Speech Act Theory, Ethnocentrism and the Multiplicity of Meaning Making Practices. In M. Sbisa and K. Turner, eds., Pragmatics of Speech Actions. The Hague: Mouton De Gruyter (forthcoming) | |
| n.d. | (w/ S. Coutin) Law in the Space of Exception: Plenary Power, Immigrants and the Indigenous. University of California Irvine Law Review (forthcoming). | |
| 2012 | Discourse Analysis and Linguistic Anthropology In J. Gee and M. Hanford, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Taylor & Francis. | |
| 2011 | "Beyond Listening: Lessons for Native/American Collaboration from the Creation of the Nakwatsvewat Institute." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 35(1): 101-111. | |
| 2011 | "Hopi Tradition As Jusridiction: On the Potentializing Limits of Hopi Tribal Sovereignty." Law and Social Inquiry 36(1): 201-234. | |
| 2010 | "'They Did It Like a Song': Ethics, Aesthetics and Tradition in Hopi Legal Discourse," in Michael Lambek (ed.), Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action. Fordham University Press, 249-272. | |
| 2009 | On Neoliberalism And Other Social Diseases: The 2008 Sociocultural Anthropology Year in Review. American Anthropologist, 110(2):170-176. | |
| 2009 | (Co-authored with Maria Glowacka and Dorothy Washburn) Nuvatukya’ovi, San Francisco Peaks: Balancing Western Economies With Native American Spiritualities: A Report. Current Anthropology, 50(4):547-562. | |
| 2009 | “‘Language, Court, Constitution. It’s All Tied Up Into One’: The (Meta)pragmatics of Tradition in a Hopi Tribal Court Hearing.” In Paul Kroskrity and Margaret Field (eds.), Native American Language Ideologies: Beliefs, Feelings, and Struggles in Indian Country. Tuczon, AZ: University of Arizona Press. | |
| 2009 | Hopi Sovereignty as Epistemological Limit. Wicazo Sa Review, 24(1):89-112. | |
| 2008 | Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court. Chicago Series in Law and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
| 2008 | The State of Hopi Exception: When inheritance is what you have. Cardozo Review of Law and Literature, 20(2):161-178. | |
| 2008 | Sovereign Time, Storied Moments: Time, Law, and Ethnography. Political and Anthropological Review, 31(1):56-75. | |
| 2007 | Pragmatic Paradoxes and Ironies of Indigeneity. American Ethnologist 34(3):540-558. | |
| 2006 | The Multiple Calculi of Meaning. Discourse & Society, 17(1):65-97. | |
| 2005 | “What are you going to do with the village’s knowledge?” Talking Tradition, Talking Law in Hopi Tribal Court. Law and Society Review, 39:235-271. | |
| 2004 | (Co-authored with Sarah Deer) Introduction to Tribal Legal Studies. Tribal Legal Studies Series, Vol. 1. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press. |