Sovereignty, legitimacy, and power in West African societies
Subtitle: perspectives from legal anthropology
By: E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Werner Zips, eds.
Contributors: Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Emile Adriaan Benvenuto van, 1939-; Zips, Werner, 1958-
Series: African studies ;; v. 10; Afrikanische Studien (Münster, Germany) ;; v. 10.
Publisher: LIT; Distributed in in North America by Transaction Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Hamburg; New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Legitimacy of governments -- Africa, West.; Customary law -- Africa, West.; Chiefdoms -- Africa, West.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"... eight 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."--p. vii.
Table of contents: title: Some remarks on recent trends in the anthropology of law -- Richard Potz; title: Function of otherness in treaty-making -- Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff; title: Custom, tradition, and law in precolonial Asante -- Tom C. McCaskie; title: Chief-state relations in Ghana, divided sovereignty and legitimacy -- Donald I. Ray; title: Law and protest in Africa -- E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; title: Bulsa marriage law and practice -- Ulrike Wanitzek; title: Narration and negotiation -- Beverly J. Stoeltje; title: Nanny -- Werner Zips