Werner ZipsWerner Zips is professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria. The trained lawyer and anthropologist is the author of numerous articles and books on Jamaican Maroons (Nanny's Asafo Warriors. The Jamaican Maroons' Arican Experiences, 2011; Black Rebels. African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica, 1999), Rastafari (Rastafari. A Universal Philosophy in the Third Millennium, 2006), and Black Nationalism. He has edited volumes on Legal Pluralism, the African Diaspora, and Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa. His recent research deals with issues of conservation in Africa, with a special focus on community-based natural resource management, indigenous rights, and climate crisis mitigation. In cooperation with Manuela Zips-Mairitsch he has edited the volume Bewildering Borders: The Economy of Conservation in Africa (2019). He has also directed and produced numerous ethnographic films and television documentaries on Southern Africa, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia, including the DVD Mutabaruka: The Return to the Motherland (2011). Read More Read Less