Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey.
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TextPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.Description: xii, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780813933863 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780813933870 (ebook)
- 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
- DT510.43.D34Â .M33 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-219) and index.
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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