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229

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Sovereignty, legitimacy, and power in West African societies: perspectives from legal anthropology
1998, LIT, Distributed in in North America by Transaction Publishers
in English

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Table of 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

Edition 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.

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Hamburg, New Brunswick, N.J
Series
African studies ;, v. 10, Afrikanische Studien (Münster, Germany) ;, v. 10.

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Library of Congress
KQC542 .S67 1998, KQC542.S67 1998

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Pagination
xxiii, 229 p. ;
Number of pages
229

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Open Library
OL6828044M
ISBN 10
3825830365
LCCN
00315824
OCLC/WorldCat
39792788
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