Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana /

Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana / / Carola Lentz.

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748624010);Drawing on two decades of research this social and political history of North-Western Ghana traces the creation of new ethnic and territorial boundaries, categories and forms of self-understanding, and represents a major contribution to debates...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Lentz, Carola,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2006
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:International African Library : IAL
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of maps and plates
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The North-West in the Nineteenth Century
  • 2. The Introduction of Chieftaincy
  • 3. The Discursive Creation of Ethnicity
  • 4. The Lawra Confederacy Native Authority
  • 5. Labour Migration, Home-ties and Ethnicity
  • 6. 'Light over the Volta': the Mission of the White Fathers
  • 7. Decolonisation and Local Government Reform
  • 8. 'The Time When Politics Came': Party Politics and Local Conflict
  • 9. Ethnic Movements and Special-interest Politics
  • 10. The Cultural Work of Ethnicity
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Divisional (Paramount) Chiefs of Lawra District
  • References
  • Index

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