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Author MacGaffey, Wyatt.

Title Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 227 p. :) ill., maps
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-219) and index
Subject Chiefdoms -- Ghana -- Northern Region
Dagbani (African people) -- History
Dagbani (African people) -- Land tenure
Dagbani (African people) -- Politics and government
Land tenure -- Ghana -- Northern Region
Local government -- Ghana -- Northern Region
Chiefdoms.
Dagbani (African people)
Historiography.
Land tenure.
Local government.
Politics and government.
SUBJECT Dagomba (Ghana) -- Historiography
Dagomba (Ghana) -- Politics and government
Subject Ghana -- Dagomba.
Ghana -- Northern Region.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012030531
ISBN 0813933862
0813933870
9780813933863
9780813933870