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

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This book provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to the present, setting that history in the context of the regional resources and political culture of northern Ghana. This book shows how the history commonly assumed by scholars has been shaped by the prej...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacGaffey, Wyatt
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Temas:
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 (Peuple d'Afrique) > Histoire.
Dagomba (Peuple d'Afrique) > Terres.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
HISTORY > Africa > South > Republic of South Africa.
Chiefdoms
Dagbani (African people)
Historiography
Land tenure
Local government
Politics and government
Dagomba (Ghana) > Historiography.
Dagomba (Ghana) > Politics and government.
Ghana > Dagomba
Ghana > Northern Region
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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