Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana
- Title
- Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey.
- Published by
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xii, 227 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Local government > Ghana > Northern Region
- Dagomba (Ghana) > Politics and government
- Chiefdoms > Ghana > Northern Region
- Dagbani (African people) > Politics and government
- Land tenure > Ghana > Northern Region
- Dagomba (Ghana) > Historiography
- Dagbani (African people) > History
- Dagbani (African people) > Land tenure
- 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.
- Call number
- Sc E 13-671
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- MacGaffey, Wyatt.
- Title
- Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey.
- Imprint
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- LCCN
- 2012030531
- ISBN
- 9780813933863 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813933862 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780813933870 (e-book)
- 0813933870 (e-book)
- Research call number
- Sc E 13-671