Publications of Maria Sapignoli

Sapignoli, M.: Anthropology and the AI-turn in global governance. American Journal of International Law Unbound 115, pp. 294 - 298 (2021)

Sapignoli, M.: The mismeasure of the human: big data and the 'AI turn' in global governance. Anthropology Today 37 (1), pp. 4 - 8 (2021)

Sapignoli, M.: “Bushmen” in the law: evidence and identity in Botswana's High Court. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 40 (2), pp. 210 - 225 (2017)

Hitchcock, R. K.; Sapignoli, M.; Babchuk, W. A.: Settler colonialism, conflicts, and genocide: interactions between hunter-gatherers and settlers in Kenya, and Zimbabwe and northern Botswana. Settler Colonial Studies 5 (1), pp. 40 - 65 (2015)

Hitchcock, R.; Sapignoli, M.; Main, M.; Babchuk, W.: The politics and economics of community-based natural resource management in /Xai/Xai, Western Ngamiland, Botswana. African Study Monographs 36 (4), pp. 211 - 260 (2015)

Sapignoli, M.: Dispossession in the age of humanity: human rights, citizenship, and indigeneity in the Central Kalahari. Anthropological Forum 25 (3), pp. 285 - 305 (2015)

Sapignoli, M.: Mobility, land use, and leadership in small-scale and middle-range societies. Reviews in Anthropology 43 (1), pp. 35 - 78 (2014)

Sapignoli, M.; Hitchcock, R. K.: Indigenous peoples in Southern Africa. Round Table 102 (4), pp. 355 - 365 (2013)

Sapignoli, M.; Hitchcock, R. K.: A chronology of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, update III: 2002-2011. Botswana Notes and Records 45, pp. 16 - 27 (2013)

Sapignoli, M.: Boundaries and bushmen: the Central Kalahari Game Reserve then and now. Anthropology News 53 (2), pp. 1 - 4 (2012)

Hitchcock, R.; Sapignoli, M.; Babchuk, W.: What about our rights?: settlements, subsistence, and livelihood security among Central Kalahari San and Bakgalagadi. International Journal of Human Rights 15 (1), pp. 62 - 88 (2011)

Avis, M.; Marciniak, D.; Sapignoli, M.: States of surveillance: ethnographic perspectives on technology in policing. In: States of surveillance: ethnographies of new technologies in policing and justice, pp. 1 - 16 (Eds. Avis, M.; Marciniak, D.; Sapignoli, M.). Routledge, London; New York (2025)

Donahoe, B.; Foblets, M.-C.; Sapignoli, M.: Legal practitioners and anthropologists in dialogue: returning to the spirit of complementarity and collaboration. In: Anthropological expertise and legal practice: in conversation, pp. 1 - 20 (Eds. Foblets, M.-C.; Sapignoli, M.; Donahoe, B.). Routledge, London; New York (2024)

Foblets, M.-C.; Goodale, M.; Sapignoli, M.; Zenker, O.: Introduction: mapping the field of law and anthropology. In: The Oxford handbook of law and anthropology, pp. 1 - 15 (Eds. Foblets, M.-C.; Goodale, M.; Sapignoli, M.; Zenker, O.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2022)

Sapignoli, M.; Niezen, R.: Global legal institutions. In: The Oxford handbook of law and anthropology, pp. 842 - 859 (Eds. Foblets, M.-C.; Goodale, M.; Sapignoli, M.; Zenker, O.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2022)

Hitchcock, R.; Sapignoli, M.: The San of southern Africa. In: Native nations: the survival of indigenous peoples, 3. ed. Ed., pp. 199 - 228 (Eds. Neely, S.; Hume, D. W.). Charlton, Vernon (2020)

Hitchcock, R. K.; Sapignoli, M.: The economic wellbeing of the San of the western, central and eastern Kalahari regions of Botswana. In: Routledge handbook of indigenous wellbeing, pp. 170 - 183 (Eds. Fleming, C.; Manning, M.). Routledge, London; New York (2019)

Foblets, M.-C.; Sapignoli, M.: Law and anthropology. In: The international encyclopedia of anthropology, Vol. 7, pp. 3644 - 3662 (Ed. Callan, H.). Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken; Chichester (2018)

Niezen, R.; Sapignoli, M.: Introduction. In: Palaces of hope: the anthropology of global organizations, 1. ed. Ed., pp. 1 - 30 (Eds. Niezen, R.; Sapignoli, M.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; New York; Port Melbourne; Daryaganj; Singapore (2017)

Sapignoli, M.: A kaleidoscopic institutional form: expertise and transformation in the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. In: Palaces of hope: the anthropology of global organizations, 1. ed. Ed., pp. 78 - 105 (Eds. Niezen, R.; Sapignoli, M.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; New York; Port Melbourne; Daryaganj; Singapore (2017)

Sapignoli, M.: Indigenità a Processo: il caso del Kalahari Centrale alla Corte Suprema del Botswana. In: La questione indigena in Africa, pp. 117 - 148 (Eds. Sapignoli, M.; Hitchcock, R. K.; Mangiameli, G.). Unicopli, Milano (2017)

Sapignoli, M.: Introduzione. In: La questione indigena in Africa, pp. 7 - 34 (Eds. Sapignoli, M.; Hitchcock, R. K.; Mangiameli, G.). Unicopli, Milano (2017)

Hitchcock, R. K.; Sapignoli, M.: Twenty-first-century hunting and gathering among western and central Kalahari San. In: Why forage?: hunters and gatherers in the twenty-first century, pp. 89 - 112 (Eds. Kramer, K. L.; Codding, B. F.). University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque (2016)

Sapignoli, M.: Indigenous mobilization and activism: the San, the Botswana State, and the international community. In: Handbook of indigenous peoples’ rights, pp. 268 - 281 (Eds. Lennox, C.; Short, D.). Routledge, New York (2016)

Hitchcock, R.; Sapignoli, M.: Estrategias San para la defensa de los derechos sobre tierras y recursos en Africa Meridional. In: Los derechos indígenas tras la declaración: el desafío de la implementación, pp. 365 - 388 (Eds. Gómez Isa, F.; Berraondo , M.). Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao (2013)

Sapignoli, M.; Hitchcock, R.: Development and dispossession: impacts of land reform in Botswana. In: Africa for sale?: positioning the state, land and society in foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Africa, pp. 131 - 157 (Eds. Evers, S. J.T.M.; Seagle, C.; Krijtenburg, F.). Brill, Leiden (2013)

Hitchcock, R.; Sapignoli, M.: The indigenous world. In: The Sage handbook of social anthropology, Vol. 1, pp. 538 - 546 (Eds. Fardon, R.; Harris, O.; Marchand, T. H.J.; Nuttall, M.; Shore, C. et al.). SAGE, Los Angeles (2012)

Sapignoli, M.: Indigeneity and the expert: negotiating identity in the case of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. In: Law and anthropology, pp. 247 - 268 (Eds. Freeman, M.; Napier, D.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2009)

Sapignoli, M.: Il quero un elemento di comunicazione. In: Appunti di campo: nuovi studi in omaggio a Laura Laurencich Minelli, pp. 25 - 46 (Ed. Venturoli , S.). Quaderni del Dipartimento di Discipline Storiche, Bologna (2005)

Avis, M.; Marciniak, D.; Sapignoli, M. (Eds.): States of surveillance: ethnographies of new technologies in policing and justice. Routledge, London; New York (2025), xiv, 186 pp.

Foblets, M.-C.; Sapignoli, M.; Donahoe, B. (Eds.): Anthropological expertise and legal practice: in conversation. Routledge, London; New York (2024), XVI, 222 pp.

Foblets, M.-C.; Goodale, M.; Sapignoli, M.; Zenker, O. (Eds.): The Oxford handbook of law and anthropology. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2022)

Sapignoli, M.; Niezen, R. (Eds.): Palaces of hope: the anthropology of global organizations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; New York; Port Melbourne; Daryaganj; Singapore (2017), XIV, 329 pp.

Sapignoli, M.; Hitchcock, R. K.; Mangiameli, G. (Eds.): La questione indigena in Africa. Unicopli, Mailand (2017), 341 pp.

Sapignoli, M.: Hunting justice: displacement, law, and activism in the Kalahari. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2018), XIX, 412 pp.