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Author

MacGaffey, Wyatt.

Title Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers [electronic resource] : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana / Wyatt MacGaffey.

Imprint

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xii, 227 p. : ill.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	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.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780813933863 (cloth alk. paper)
	9780813933870 (electronic bk.)