Political Asylum, Anthropology and the Role of the Expert Witness

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  • Richard A. Lobban Department of Anthropology, Program of African and Afro-American Studies, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI 02908, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17140/ANTPOJ-2-110

Abstract

When I took my first course in anthropology in 1961, I was a student of biology (major) at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA. When I went to Africa for the first time in 1964 to build a school and teach biology, or when I was studying Yoruba social organization at Temple University from 1966 to 1968, or when I did my PhD research on Nubian ethnography at Northwestern, I had never imagined that this trail through Africa would conceivably lead me to become an Expert Witness in political asylum cases.

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Published

2017-05-15

How to Cite

Richard A. Lobban. (2017). Political Asylum, Anthropology and the Role of the Expert Witness. Anthropology , 2(2), 29–30. https://doi.org/10.17140/ANTPOJ-2-110

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2017): Volume 2 Issue 2 2017

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