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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.