Research Catalog

Title

Sovereignty, legitimacy, and power in West African societies : perspectives from legal anthropology / E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Werner Zips, eds.

Publication

Hamburg : LIT ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [1998]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Emile Adriaan Benvenuto van, 1939-
• Zips, Werner, 1958-

Description

xxiii, 229 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

African studies ; v. 10

Uniform Title

Afrikanische Studien (Münster, Germany) ; v. 10.

Subject

• Customary law > Africa, West
• Ethnological jurisprudence > Africa, West
• Chiefdoms > Africa, West

Note

• "...papers presented at the Symposium on Legal Anthropology organized in the context of the Conference of German-Speaking Ethnologists, held from 25 to 29 September 1995 at the University of Vienna, Austria."--vii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Some remarks on recent trends in the anthropology of law / Richard Potz -- Function of otherness in treaty-making / Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff -- Custom, tradition and law in precolonial Asante / Tom C. McCaskie -- Chief-state relations in Ghana, divided sovereignty and legitimacy / Donald I. Ray -- Law and protest in Africa / E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal -- Bulsa marriage law and practice / Ulrike Wanitzek -- Narration and negotiation / Beverly J. Stoeltje -- Nanny / Werner Zips

Call Number

Sc E 00-451

ISBN

3825830365

OCLC

39792788

Title

Sovereignty, legitimacy, and power in West African societies : perspectives from legal anthropology / E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Werner Zips, eds.

Imprint

Hamburg : LIT ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [1998]

Series

African studies ; v. 10

Afrikanische Studien (Münster, Germany) ; v. 10.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Emile Adriaan Benvenuto van, 1939-

Zips, Werner, 1958-

Research Call Number

Sc E 00-451