Reading legal ethnographies to re-map legal pluralism: a Pospisilian corrective to the prevailing dichotomous description of Afghanistan’s legal orderFootnote

1 Some segments of this article were presented at the conference of the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig–Maximilians–Universität, “Human Rights Work and Transnational Legal Activism: Limits and Potential”, which took place in Munich on 8–9 February 2019, at the workshop of EASA’s Anthropology of Humanitarianism Network (AHN) “Intersections of Humanitarianism” which took place in Goettingen 1–3 November 2019, and at the Melbourne Law School workshop “Contested Legalities: Translocal Encounters with Transnational Law” which was held online, 8–9 July 2021. We would like to thank to participants of these workshops and particularly Emma Nyhan for their helpful comments as well as the anonymous reviewers for helping us to improve this paper and doctoral student Martina Janeckova for the help with technical aspects of the manuscript.

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