Abstract The legacy of Jacob Grimm, one of the Grimm brothers, is not limited to philological, mythological and folklore studies but also includes significant research into law and legal culture, which was seen as archaeological in his time. This resonated in classics of social and legal anthropology but was largely repudiated due to the anti–German sentiments raised around the World Wars. Some scholars have praised Jacob as the founder of legal ethnography and archaeology as well as legal pluralism, while others have criticized him as a nationalist inventor of a single German customary law. This paper argues that while Jacob’s legal research was tightly related to the German politics of self–determination; it is a distinct scholarly work whose many aspects are pertinent even for more recent socio–legal ethnographies. It points out especially the philological origins of his concept of law and the idea of legal poetry as a key factor in the formation of anthropological legal pluralism. Finally, Jacob’s attempt to understand the law in the past is seen as a transitional scholarly moment of the disenchantment of the law, which was closed before in theological and philological forms, that inaugurated the road to contemporary legal anthropology.

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法律知识的祛魅：雅各布格林在人类学之前的法律人类学

摘要 格林兄弟之一雅各布·格林的遗产不仅限于语言学、神话学和民俗学研究，还包括对法律和法律文化的重要研究，这在他的时代被视为考古学。这在社会和法律人类学的经典中引起了共鸣，但由于在世界大战期间引发的反德情绪而在很大程度上遭到否定。一些学者称赞雅各布是法律民族志和考古学以及法律多元化的创始人，而另一些学者则批评他是单一德国习惯法的民族主义发明者。本文认为，虽然雅各布的法律研究与德国的自决政治密切相关；这是一部独特的学术著作，其许多方面甚至与最近的社会法律民族志相关。它特别指出了他的法律概念和法律诗歌思想的语言学渊源，这是人类学法律多元化形成的关键因素。最后，雅各布对过去理解法律的尝试被视为法律祛魅的过渡性学术时刻，之前以神学和语言学形式封闭，开创了通向当代法律人类学的道路。