Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers [electronic resource] : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey.
Material type: TextPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)ISBN:- 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
- 966.70049635 23
- DT510.43.D34 M33 2013
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.
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