Publications of Maria Sapignoli
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Journal Article (11)
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Sapignoli, Maria. 2021. Anthropology and the AI-turn in global governance. American Journal of International Law Unbound 115: 294–298. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2021.38.
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Sapignoli, Maria. 2021. The mismeasure of the human: big data and the 'AI turn' in global governance. Anthropology Today 37(1): 4–8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12627.
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Sapignoli, Maria. 2017. “Bushmen” in the law: evidence and identity in Botswana's High Court. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 40(2): 210–225. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.12216.
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Maria Sapignoli, and . 2015. Settler colonialism, conflicts, and genocide: interactions between hunter-gatherers and settlers in Kenya, and Zimbabwe and northern Botswana. Settler Colonial Studies 5(1): 40–65. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2014.899549.
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Maria Sapignoli, , and . 2015. The politics and economics of community-based natural resource management in /Xai/Xai, Western Ngamiland, Botswana. African Study Monographs 36(4): 211–260. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14989/202828.
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Sapignoli, Maria. 2015. Dispossession in the age of humanity: human rights, citizenship, and indigeneity in the Central Kalahari. Anthropological Forum 25(3): 285–305. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2015.1021293.
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Sapignoli, Maria. 2014. Mobility, land use, and leadership in small-scale and middle-range societies. Reviews in Anthropology 43(1): 35–78. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00938157.2014.872463.
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Sapignoli, Maria and . 2013. Indigenous peoples in Southern Africa. Round Table 102(4): 355–365.
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Sapignoli, Maria and . 2013. A chronology of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, update III: 2002-2011. Botswana Notes and Records 45: 16–27.
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Sapignoli, Maria. 2012. Boundaries and bushmen: the Central Kalahari Game Reserve then and now. Anthropology News 53(2): 1–4.
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Maria Sapignoli, and . 2011. What about our rights?: settlements, subsistence, and livelihood security among Central Kalahari San and Bakgalagadi. International Journal of Human Rights 15(1): 62–88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2011.529689.
, Book Chapter (18)
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Book Chapter
Avis, Maya, Daniel Marciniak, and Maria Sapignoli. 2025. States of surveillance: ethnographic perspectives on technology in policing. In: Maya Avis, Daniel Marciniak, and Maria Sapignoli (eds.). States of surveillance: ethnographies of new technologies in policing and justice. Routledge Studies in Surveillance. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 1–16.
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Donahoe, Brian, Marie-Claire Foblets, and Maria Sapignoli. 2024. Legal practitioners and anthropologists in dialogue: returning to the spirit of complementarity and collaboration. In: Marie-Claire Foblets, Maria Sapignoli, and Brian Donahoe (eds.). Anthropological expertise and legal practice: in conversation. Law and Anthropology Series. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 1–20.
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Foblets, Marie-Claire, , Maria Sapignoli, and Olaf Zenker. 2022. Introduction: mapping the field of law and anthropology. In: Marie-Claire Foblets, , Maria Sapignoli, and Olaf Zenker (eds.). The Oxford handbook of law and anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1–15.
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Sapignoli, Maria and Ronald Niezen. 2022. Global legal institutions. In: Marie-Claire Foblets, , Maria Sapignoli, and Olaf Zenker (eds.). The Oxford handbook of law and anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 842–859.
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Maria Sapignoli. 2020. The San of southern Africa. In: and (eds.). Native nations: the survival of indigenous peoples. 3. ed. Vernon: Charlton, pp. 199–228.
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Maria Sapignoli. 2019. The economic wellbeing of the San of the western, central and eastern Kalahari regions of Botswana. In: and (eds.). Routledge handbook of indigenous wellbeing. Routledge International Handbooks. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 170–183.
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Foblets, Marie-Claire and Maria Sapignoli. 2018. Law and anthropology. In: (ed.). The international encyclopedia of anthropology 7. Hoboken; Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 3644–3662.
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Niezen, Ronald and Maria Sapignoli. 2017. Introduction. In: Ronald Niezen and Maria Sapignoli (eds.). Palaces of hope: the anthropology of global organizations. 1. ed. Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. Cambridge; New York; Port Melbourne; Daryaganj; Singapore: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–30.
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Sapignoli, Maria. 2017. A kaleidoscopic institutional form: expertise and transformation in the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. In: Ronald Niezen and Maria Sapignoli (eds.). Palaces of hope: the anthropology of global organizations. 1. ed. Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. Cambridge; New York; Port Melbourne; Daryaganj; Singapore: Cambridge University Press, pp. 78–105.
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Sapignoli, Maria. 2017. Indigenità a Processo: il caso del Kalahari Centrale alla Corte Suprema del Botswana. In: Maria Sapignoli, , and (eds.). La questione indigena in Africa. Biblioteca di Studi Antropologici 9. Milano: Unicopli, pp. 117–148.
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Sapignoli, Maria. 2017. Introduzione. In: Maria Sapignoli, , and (eds.). La questione indigena in Africa. Biblioteca di Studi Antropologici 9. Milano: Unicopli, pp. 7–34.
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Maria Sapignoli. 2016. Twenty-first-century hunting and gathering among western and central Kalahari San. In: and (eds.). Why forage?: hunters and gatherers in the twenty-first century. School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp. 89–112.
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Sapignoli, Maria. 2016. Indigenous mobilization and activism: the San, the Botswana State, and the international community. In: and (eds.). Handbook of indigenous peoples’ rights. New York: Routledge, pp. 268–281.
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Maria Sapignoli. 2013. Estrategias San para la defensa de los derechos sobre tierras y recursos en Africa Meridional. In: and (eds.). Los derechos indígenas tras la declaración: el desafío de la implementación. Derechos Humanos 20. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, pp. 365–388.
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Sapignoli, Maria and . 2013. Development and dispossession: impacts of land reform in Botswana. In: , , and (eds.). Africa for sale?: positioning the state, land and society in foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Africa. Afrika-Studiecentrum Series 29. Leiden: Brill, pp. 131–157.
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Maria Sapignoli. 2012. The indigenous world. In: , , , , , , and (eds.). The Sage handbook of social anthropology 1. Los Angeles: SAGE, pp. 538–546.
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Sapignoli, Maria. 2009. Indigeneity and the expert: negotiating identity in the case of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. In: and (eds.). Law and anthropology. Current Legal Issues 12. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 247–268.
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Sapignoli, Maria. 2005. Il quero un elemento di comunicazione. In: (ed.). Appunti di campo: nuovi studi in omaggio a Laura Laurencich Minelli. Bologna: Quaderni del Dipartimento di Discipline Storiche, pp. 25–46.
Collected Edition (5)
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Collected Edition
Avis, Maya, Daniel Marciniak, and Maria Sapignoli (eds.). 2025. States of surveillance: ethnographies of new technologies in policing and justice. Routledge Studies in Surveillance. London; New York: Routledge.
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Collected Edition
Foblets, Marie-Claire, Maria Sapignoli, and Brian Donahoe (eds.). 2024. Anthropological expertise and legal practice: in conversation. Law and Anthropology Series. London; New York: Routledge.
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Collected Edition
Foblets, Marie-Claire, , Maria Sapignoli, and Olaf Zenker (eds.). 2022. The Oxford handbook of law and anthropology. Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Collected Edition
Sapignoli, Maria and (eds.). 2017. Palaces of hope: the anthropology of global organizations. 1. ed. Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. Cambridge; New York; Port Melbourne; Daryaganj; Singapore: Cambridge University Press.
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Collected Edition
Sapignoli, Maria, , and (eds.). 2017. La questione indigena in Africa. Mailand: Unicopli.
Monograph (1)
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Monograph
Sapignoli, Maria. 2018. Hunting justice: displacement, law, and activism in the Kalahari. Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.