Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers
MacGaffey, Wyatt.
Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / [electronic resource] : Wyatt MacGaffey. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (248 p.)
Includes bibliographical references 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.
9780813933870 0813933870
Land tenure--Ghana--Northern Region.
Local government--Ghana--Northern Region.
Chiefdoms--Ghana--Northern Region.
Dagbani (African people)--Land tenure.
Dagbani (African people)--Politics and government.
Dagbani (African people)--History.
Dagomba (Ghana)--Politics and government.
Dagomba (Ghana)--Historiography.
Electronic books.
DT510.43.D34 / M33 2013
966.70049635
Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / [electronic resource] : Wyatt MacGaffey. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (248 p.)
Includes bibliographical references 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.
9780813933870 0813933870
Land tenure--Ghana--Northern Region.
Local government--Ghana--Northern Region.
Chiefdoms--Ghana--Northern Region.
Dagbani (African people)--Land tenure.
Dagbani (African people)--Politics and government.
Dagbani (African people)--History.
Dagomba (Ghana)--Politics and government.
Dagomba (Ghana)--Historiography.
Electronic books.
DT510.43.D34 / M33 2013
966.70049635