Price, Richard --- "The anthropologist as expert witness: a personal account" [2017] ELECD 1609; in Nafziger, A.R. James (ed), "Comparative Law and Anthropology" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 415

Book Title: Comparative Law and Anthropology

Editor(s): Nafziger, A.R. James

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781955178

Section: Chapter 18

Section Title: The anthropologist as expert witness: a personal account

Author(s): Price, Richard

Number of pages: 15

Abstract/Description:

After a brief review of the history of anthropologists testifying as expert witnesses before courts, this chapter recounts my personal experiences as an anthropologist appearing before the Inter-American Court for Human Rights as an expert witness. Serving as expert witness on behalf of the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in their cases against the Republic of Suriname (in which they live), I helped them win their cases and establish jurisprudence for Maroons and Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas. Unfortunately, to date, the State of Suriname has refused to honor the most important aspects of the landmark 2007 decision of the Court in Saramaka People v. Suriname.