Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers [electronic resource] : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey.
Publication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.Description: xii, 227 p. : illISBN:- 9780813933863 (cloth alk. paper)
- 9780813933870 (e-book)
- 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
- 966.70049635 23
- DT510.43.D34 M33 2013eb
eBooks
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.