Wolfgang Gabbert is sociologist and anthropologist (habilitation 2000) and currently Professor at the Leibniz University Hannover (Germany). His main research areas are legal anthropology, conflict and violence, ethnicity and social inequality, colonialism and Christian missions. He has authored the first book-length treatment of Nicaragua’s African American Creoles (Creoles, LIT 1992) and the first English-language study that examines the role of ethnicity and social inequality in the history of Yucatan, Mexico (Becoming Maya? Ethnicity and Social Inequality in Yucatán since 1500(University of Arizona Press 2004). Recent publications include: Violence and the Caste War of Yucatán (Cambridge University Press 2019); Marginalization, Assimilation, and Resurgence: Indigenous People in Central America since Independence. In Robert H. Holden (ed.): Oxford Handbook of Central American History (Oxford University Press 2020, pp. 107-38; „Amerindian war and religion in the eastern woodlands of North America, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.“ History and Anthropology 34 (1):78-98; Human Sacrifice, Ritualised Violence and the Colonial Encounter in the Americas. In: Robert Antony, Stuart Carroll and Caroline Dodds Pennock (eds.): The Cambridge World History of Violence. Volume III, 1500-1800 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020, pp. 96-115; Marginalization, Assimilation, and Resurgence: Indigenous People in Central America since Independence. In Robert H. Holden (ed.): Oxford Handbook of Central American History. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020, pp. 107-38; „Amerindian war and religion in the eastern woodlands of North America, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.“ History and Anthropology 34, 1 (2023):78-98; „El retorno del nacionalismo romántico en el discurso sobre los pueblos indígenas“, AIBR, Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana, 20 (2025): 17-41.
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