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Author MacGaffey, Wyatt.

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

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
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Description 1 online resource
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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.
Summary 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 prejudices of colonial anthropology, the needs of British indirect rule, and local political agency. The book demonstrates, too, how political agency has shaped the kinship system.
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Subject Dagbani (African people) -- History.
Dagbani (African people)
History.
Dagbani (African people) -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Dagbani (African people) -- Land tenure.
Land tenure.
Chiefdoms -- Ghana -- Northern Region.
Chiefdoms.
Ghana -- Northern Region.
Local government -- Ghana -- Northern Region.
Land tenure -- Ghana -- Northern Region.
Dagomba (Ghana) -- Historiography.
Dagomba (Ghana) -- Politics and government.
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
Local government.
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa.
Historiography.
Ghana -- Dagomba.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780813933863 0813933862 (DLC) 2012030531
ISBN 0813933870 (electronic book)
9780813933870 (electronic book)
9780813933863 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0813933862 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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