Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers [electronic resource] : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey.

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Main Author: MacGaffey, Wyatt
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2013 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2013 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2013 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-singers: History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana
Format: Electronic eBook
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.