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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/825978016 Title: Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana Author: Wyatt MacGaffey Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. ISBN/ISSN: 0813933870 9780813933870 OCLC:825978016

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Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana

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Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana

Author:	Wyatt MacGaffey
Publisher:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
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Subjects	Dagbani (African people) -- History. Dagbani (African people) -- Politics and government. Dagbani (African people) -- Land tenure. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Electronic books
Additional Physical Format:	Print version: (DLC) 2012030531
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ISBN:	0813933870 9780813933870
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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.
Responsibility:	Wyatt MacGaffey.

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A very interesting and important case study on the Dagbon chiefdom in northern Ghana. MacGaffey offers a nuanced analysis of the intricate relationship between secular and ritual/religious sources of Read more...

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