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Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey.
Penn Museum Library DT510.43.D34 M33 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacGaffey, Wyatt.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dagbani (African people)--History.
- Dagbani (African people).
- Dagbani (African people)--Politics and government.
- Dagbani (African people)--Land tenure.
- Chiefdoms--Ghana--Northern Region.
- Chiefdoms.
- Local government--Ghana--Northern Region.
- Local government.
- Land tenure--Ghana--Northern Region.
- Land tenure.
- Politics and government.
- History.
- Dagomba (Ghana)--Historiography.
- Dagomba (Ghana).
- Dagomba (Ghana)--Politics and government.
- Ghana--Northern Region.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-219) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813933863
- 0813933862
- 9780813933870
- 0813933870
- OCLC:
- 805892349
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