Contributors
- Contributors
Gracia Clark is associate professor of anthropology at Indiana University. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University in 1984. Her work with market women in Kumasi, Ghana, appears in "Onions Are My Husband," her 1994 book with the University of Chicago Press. She is currently editing life histories of women traders from Kumasi Central Market, and has recently published articles and book chapters addressing food security, structural adjustment, development ideologies, motherhood, gender, kinship and marriage.
Jane E. Goodman is assistant professor of communication and culture at Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Brandeis University in 1999. Since 1992, she has conducted field and archival research in Algeria and France. Her major research interests include the anthropology of colonialism, textuality and discourse, and world music. Her work appears in American Ethnologist, the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and Ethos, and for the University of Pennsylvania Press, she is currently completing a book on new Kabyle song.
Anne Griffiths is a reader in the Faculty of Law at Edinburgh University, in Scotland. Her major research interests include comparative and family law, alternative dispute processing, and anthropology of law. She has conducted long-term field research on family law in Botswana, southern Africa, detailed in her book In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1997. Her most recent publications include a contribution entitled Gendering Culture: Towards a Plural Perspective on Kwena Women's Rights, in Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by R. Wilson, J. Cowan, and M. Dembour,and published by Cambridge University Press in 2001.
Samuel Obeng is associate professor of linguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He received his doctorate in language and linguistic science from the University of York in England. His current research is on ethnopragmatics, political and juridical discourse. He has published five books and over forty articles in refereed journals. His most recent publications are "Surviving through Obliqueness: Language and Politics in Emerging Democracies," and "Political Independence with Linguistic Servitude: The Politics about Languages in the Developing World," being published by Nova Science Publishers (New York). [End Page 123]
Beverly J. Stoeltje is associate professor of anthropology at Indiana University. Her major interests include gender in Africa; Asante queen mothers and chieftaincy in Ghana; ritual, festival, and politics; legal pluralism; and narrative and performance. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1979. She is the author of Asante Queenmothers: A Study in Female Authority in Queens, Queenmothers, Priestesses, and Power, and "Gender Ideologies and Discursive Practices in Asante," in the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 2000. She has carried out long-term research on ritual and rodeo in the United States, and Ghana with queen mothers and their courts.
Ulrike Wanitzek is Privatdozentin of private law, comparative law, and legal sociology in the Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Bayreuth, Germany. From April to July, 2002, she was a visiting professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. She received her Dr. jur. and her Dr. jur. habil. from the University of Bayreuth in 1985 and in 2000, respectively. Apart from being the coeditor of Law, Society, and National Identity in Africa (Hamburg: Buske, 1990), she is the author of Kindschaftsrecht in Tansania, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Rechts der Sukuma [The Law of the Child in Tanzania, with Special Reference to the Sukuma Law] (Hohenschäftlarn: Renner, 1986), of Rechtliche Elternschaft bei medizinisch unterstützter Fortpflanzung [Legal Parenthood in Cases of Assisted Procreation] (Bielefeld: Gieseking, 2002), and of numerous articles with a focus on legal pluralism and family law in Ghana and Tanzania. [End Page 124]
