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MacGaffey, Wyatt.

Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / [electronic resource] : Wyatt MacGaffey. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. - xii, 227 p. : ill.

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.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Dagomba (Ghana)--Historiography.
Dagomba (Ghana)--Politics and government.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DT510.43.D34 / M33 2013eb

Dewey Class. No.: 966.70049635