Die Beiträge beziehen sich auf eine Konferenz deutschsprachiger Ethnologen, die 1995 an der Universität Wien abgehalten wurde. Inhalt: Werner Zips / E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal: Political and Legal Pluralism in West Africa: Introduction and Overview (IX-XXIII). I. General Perspectives of Legal Anthropology: Richard Potz: Some Remarks on Recent Trends in the Anthropology of Law (1-21). II. Case Studies of Political and Legal Pluralism in West Africa: Tom C. McCaskie: Custom, Tradition and Law in Precolonial Asante (25-47); Donald I. Ray: Chief-State Relations in Ghana - Divided Sovereignty and Legitimacy (48-69); E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal: Law and Protest in Africa: Resistance to Legal Innovation (70-116). III. History and Gender Studies in Ghana and Jamaica: Ulrike Wanitzek: Bulsa Marriage Law and Practice: Women as Social Actors in a Patriarchal Society (119-171); Beverly J. Stoeltje: Narration and Negotiation: A Woman's Case in the Queenmother's Court in Ghana (172-190); Werner Zips: Nanny: Nana of the Maroons? Some Comparative Thoughts on Queen Mothers in Akan and Jamaican Maroon Societies (191-227).