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Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana

Author
MacGaffey, Wyatt.
Title
Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey.
ISBN
9780813933863 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813933862 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813933870 (e-book)
0813933870 (e-book)
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Physical Description
xii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 16, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Colonial anthropology and historical reconstruction
Drum chant and the political uses of tradition
Tindanas and chiefs : ethnography
Chiefs and tindanas : making nam
Tamale : the Dakpema, the Gulkpe'Na, the Bugulana, and the law of the land
Chiefs in the national arena.
Subjects
Dagbani (African people) > History.
Dagbani (African people) > Politics and government.
Dagbani (African people) > Land tenure.
Chiefdoms > Ghana > Northern Region.
Local government > Ghana > Northern Region.
Land tenure > Ghana > Northern Region.
Dagomba (Ghana) > Historiography.
Dagomba (Ghana) > Politics and government.
Bookmark As
https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11330071
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