E. Adamson Hoebel

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E. Adamson Hoebel (1906–1993) was Regents Professor Emeritus of anthropology at the University of Minnesota.

Life and career

Having studied under

Legal Realism of the 1920s and 1930s, which held that the law was indeterminate on the basis of statutes and precedents alone and required study of the how disputes are resolved in practice. The "sociological" wing of legal realism championed by Llewellyn held that in American law dispute resolution was strongly influenced by norms such as those in mercantile practice.[1] Llewellyn and Hoebel (1941)[2]
went to on to develop a means of determining legal practice from ethnographic description of trouble cases, including mediation and negotiation as well as adjudication. Their "case study method" applied both to social systems with and without formal courts.

Hoebel taught anthropology at New York University from 1929 to 1948, and subsequently at the University of Utah, 1948 to 1954, where he was also dean of the University College (Arts and Sciences). He served as a Fulbright professor in anthropology at Oxford and law at the Catholic University of Leuven. He retired in 1972 as Regents' Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota after teaching there for 18 years, 15 of them as head of the department. He served as president of the American Ethnological Society and the American Anthropological Association.

Between 1933 and 1949, Hoebel studied the legal systems of the

Social Anthropology. Gluckman, also given to a realist orientation to the study of law, used and further developed Llewellyn that Hoebel's "case study method" of analysis of instances of social interaction to infer rules and assumptions used in trouble cases, and the influence of social norms and conflicts outside the law. The behavioral "case study" approach has continued and expanded in later anthropological works such as Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems
(2005).

His books include Anthropology: The Study of Man (1949), which was a widely used textbook for decades, and The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains (1961). The books of which he was a co-author include The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence (1941; 1st author, with legal scholar Llewellyn), and The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains (1952; 2nd author with Texas historian Ernest Wallace).

In 1954 Hoebel contributed his major book on legal anthropology, The Law of Primitive Man: A Study in Comparative Legal Dynamics, on broadening the legal realist tradition to include non-Western nations. In doing so, he concluded with a statement about the need for contributions from the comparative legal realism tradition if progress was to be made toward

neoconservative thought and its invocation of Leo Strauss
for justification of government deception, is that to be legal, law must be based on social norms, and norms on agreements within communities, rather than the dominance of the few.

Hoebel was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1963.[5]

References

  • Hoebel, Adamson E. (1954). The Law of Primitive Man. Harvard, Massachusetts: Atheneum.
  • Hoebel, Adamson E. (1978). The Cheyennes. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Group/Thomson Learning.
  • E. Adamson Hoebel Papers 1925–1983

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Karl Nickerson Llewellyn (1893–1962)" Archived 2006-05-16 at the Wayback Machine by Brian R. Leiter, 2001, in N. Smelser & P. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (New York: Elsevier Science,) Karl Ulrich Meyer [de], editor, biographies section, pp. 8999–9001.
  2. ^ Llewellyn K., and E. A. Hoebel. 1941. The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
  3. ^ Hoebel 1954:28
  4. ^ Hoebel 1954:332
  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-11-08.

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