Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers
History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana
In his new book, the eminent anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to the present, setting that history in the context of the regional resources and political culture of northern Ghana. Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers shows how the history commonly assumed by scholars has been shaped by the prejudices of colonial anthropology, the needs of British indirect rule, and local political agency. The book demonstrates, too, how political agency has shaped the kinship system. MacGaffey traces the evolution of chieftaincy as the sources of power changed and as land ceased…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8139-3387-0
- EAN: 9780813933870
- Produktnummer: 22281820
- Verlag: University of Virginia Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'266 KB
- Abbildungen: 6 b&w photos, 4 maps, 4 figures
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Wyatt MacGaffey
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