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Papers by Werner Zips

Nach 85jährigem Guerillakrieg gegen die britische Sklavenhaltergesellschaft schlossen die 'Ma... more Nach 85jährigem Guerillakrieg gegen die britische Sklavenhaltergesellschaft schlossen die 'Maroons' genannten schwarzen Freiheitskämpfer Jamaikas 1739 einen Friedensvertrag mit der Kolonialmacht. Seit damals leben sie als weitgehend unabhängige Gesellschaften in ihren Enklaven. Der Film dokumentiert diese Maroon-Kultur, die in ihren Grundzügen auf afrikanischen Traditionen aufbaut.

The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 1998

... this ritual interaction between the Maroon leader Captain Kojo and the British negotiators Ca... more ... this ritual interaction between the Maroon leader Captain Kojo and the British negotiators Captain John Guthrie and Captain Francis Saddle, signifying ... This was restated by the present Asantehene Otumfuo Opoku Ware II at his accession to the Golden Stool in 1971, when he ...

Anthropologica, 2002

... Page 2. Page 3. BLACK REBELS AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN JAMAICA Page 4. ... Englis... more ... Page 2. Page 3. BLACK REBELS AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN JAMAICA Page 4. ... English] Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica/ Werner Zips; Translated from German by Shelley L. Frisch; Foreword by Franklin W. Knight. ...

Le contenu de ce site relève de la législation française sur la propriété intellectuelle et est l... more Le contenu de ce site relève de la législation française sur la propriété intellectuelle et est la propriété exclusive de l'éditeur. Les œuvres figurant sur ce site peuvent être consultées et reproduites sur un support papier ou numérique sous réserve qu'elles soient strictement réservées à un usage soit personnel, soit scientifique ou pédagogique excluant toute exploitation commerciale. La reproduction devra obligatoirement mentionner l'éditeur, le nom de la revue, l'auteur et la référence du document. Toute autre reproduction est interdite sauf accord préalable de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Revues.org est un portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales développé par le Cléo, Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte (CNRS, EHESS, UP, UAPV).

Volume!, 2017

Reggae from Yaad offers a gathering of Caribbean and international scholars involving some key pr... more Reggae from Yaad offers a gathering of Caribbean and international scholars involving some key practitioners and historical agents into a broad reasoning on the ramified pathways (or “trods”) of reggae music. Donna Hope has to be hailed for editing this enlightening volume on important historical experiences and developments still (fairly) untold and the current contentious issues encompassing the sexual politics of reggae music (including dancehall). As perhaps the most prolific cultural cri...

Inklusion, Diversität und Heterogenität, 2021

Unsere Einladung an diesem Sammelband mitzuwirken, verdanken wir einer von uns gestalteten 3sat-D... more Unsere Einladung an diesem Sammelband mitzuwirken, verdanken wir einer von uns gestalteten 3sat-Dokumentation uber die Seychellen. Zum Unterschied von vielen anderen Reisedokus uber diesen Inselarchipel war unser Thema recht sperrig: „Diversitat und Inklusion/Integration“. Deshalb stellen wir diesem Beitrag ein Interviewzitat als Praambel voran, das fur uns die Schlusselaussage des Films wiedergibt.

Ritualisierung – Mediatisierung – Performance, 2019

Africa has persistently been given the negative image of the lost continent: political turmoil, e... more Africa has persistently been given the negative image of the lost continent: political turmoil, economic failures, hunger, disease, irresponsible and irrational warlords, and corrupt regimes. Such a bias calls for a critique. The authors analyze power divisions and struggles over sovereignty and legitimacy in African societies from a historical point of view. Possibilities for peaceful social relations are taken as much into account as internal frictions between state and "traditional authorities."

As a collection of conference papers (presented at the University of West Indies, Mona, October 1... more As a collection of conference papers (presented at the University of West Indies, Mona, October 18-19, 1991), Maroon Heritage is intended to reinforce a dialogue that is at once intercultural and interdisciplinary. Two Jamaican Maroon Chiefs, Colonel Harris from Moore Town and former Colonel Wright from Accompong, participated with contributions on various aspects of the history and culture of their respective communities. This dialogue between scholars and their subjects of study fulfilled a declared aim of the symposium, underlined by its organizer and the editor of the volume, E. Kofi Agorsah: "I pay special tribute to our Maroon Chiefs whose contributions make this volume the only one of its kind in Maroon heritage studies, for here we are with the researched and the researcher engaged in a dialogue with a common goal" (p. xviii).

Law is considered by lawyers and sociologists to be at the very center of social integration in W... more Law is considered by lawyers and sociologists to be at the very center of social integration in Western societies, whereas social anthropological discourses regard law as marginal in Non-Western societies. Empirical studies of multisited legal frameworks in many postcolonial political settings demonstrate the difficulties to achieve any predictable mode of governance, much less "good governance". The volume challenges both the marginalization of legal arrangements and discourses in social anthropology as well as the marginalization of legal anthropology within social anthropology. "The Governance of Legal Pluralism" aims at combining the related fields of Political and Legal Anthropology in order to contribute towards a meaningful (re)integration of the anthropology of law into the mainstream of social anthropology.

The Caribbean Writer as Warrior of the Imaginary / L’Ecrivain caribéen, guerrier de l’imaginaire

Lexikon der Globalisierung, 2011

Volume !, 2011

Pour une vue d'ensemble de la musique reggae et de ses différents sous-genres, en particulier du ... more Pour une vue d'ensemble de la musique reggae et de ses différents sous-genres, en particulier du reggae dancehall, cf. : Chang et Chen (1998), Davis et Simon (1979), et Johnson et Pine (1982).

Social Anthropology, 2007

Alan Barnard presents a well considered critique of Kuper's rejection of the 'indigenous peoples'... more Alan Barnard presents a well considered critique of Kuper's rejection of the 'indigenous peoples' notion, by arguing a case for its validity, as a relational, legal concept-'a useful tool for political persuasion'-and a concept that is contingent historically and situationally, and not capable of being captured within one nomothetic definition. The author's 'third solution' along such lines is as cogent as it is practical and provides a way out of the definitional conundrum that engulfs the 'indigenous peoples' concept. It is also sensitive to the political problems, needs and aspirations of indigenous groups and the anthropologists who work among and for them. I appreciate Barnard's sensitivity on this score-his recognition that the indigenous peoples debate transcends the theoretical and ideological sensitivities of anthropologistscholars of the western academy. 'Indigenous' is a term applied to people-and by the people to themselves-who are engaged in an often desperate struggle for political rights, for land, for a place and space within a modern nation's economy and society. Identity and self-representation are vital elements of the political platform of such peoples. Politics, in the regions and the time the article is situated in-post-apartheid South and southern Africa-is all about identity, among various ethnic groups, with claims-after generations of oppression by the apartheid state-to rights, land and competing claims to 'first people' status and standing. Like Kuper and Suzman and others, I am disturbed-although not as much as they are, for reasons I will explain below-by the essentialism, primordialism and primitivism, as well as the residual colonialism, inherent in these conceptualisations of identity, which are so much out of step with where anthropology has got to in its post-modern, post-colonial period. Yet, as an anthropologist-one who has been in the southern African field for a fair bit of time, and throughout the politically turbulent 1990s-I also find myself in a dilemma on this issue. To 'the people'-in my case the San, or Bushmen, who over the past dozen years have become much stirred up politically, have organised themselves and are active on many fronts-'cultural identity' has become an extremely important matter. Self-representation is something people expend cultural and political energy on. 'Cau ba kg'õè dim dàò me e', explains Xguga Krisjan of the Kuru Development Trust's Cultural Centre in Ghanzi, Botswana. 'Culture is a way of life' that defines and differentiates the San people in their ethnically pluralist environment. It gives sense and direction to the people, for, as declared in a speech in November 1998 by KDT's indigenous spokesman Robert Morris, 'a nation without a culture is a lost nation' (the nation referred to being the ncoa khoe, the Ghanzi San's term of self-designation). The logo of the San organisation 'First Peoples of the Kalahari' is a fire surrounded by a circle of footprints, flanked by a digging stick on the left and hunting bow on the right-the most salient cultural symbols of these trance-dancing (erstwhile)