Ethnicity in Ghana : the limits of invention

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Ethnicity in Ghana : the limits of invention

edited by Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent ; foreword by Kenneth King

Macmillan Press , St. Martin's Press, 2000

  • : uk
  • : us

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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巻冊次

: us ISBN 9780312224059

内容説明

Although African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field of enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume extends many of the distilled insights, but also modifies them in the light of the Ghanaian evidence. The collection is multidisciplinary in scope and spans the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. A central contention of the volume is that, while there were significant regional variations, ethnicity was not purely a colonial `invention'. The boundaries of `we-groups' have constantly mutated from pre-colonial times, while European categorization owed much to indigenous ways of seeing. The contributors explore the role of European administrators and recruitment officers as well as African cultural brokers in shaping new identities. The interaction of gender and ethnic consciousness is explicitly addressed. The volume also examines the formulation of the national question in Ghana today - in debates over language policy and conflicts over land and chieftaincy.
巻冊次

: uk ISBN 9780333733233

内容説明

This collection, which arises out of a conference at the Centre for African Studies, Edinburgh University in May 1995, addresses the neglected theme of ethnicity in Ghanaian history, society and politics. The papers qualify the notion that ethnicity was purely a colonial 'invention' by demonstrating the ways in which the boundaries of 'we-groups' have mutated from pre-colonial times onwards. The collection also considers the particular manner in which the national question is posed today in terms of language policy and conflicts over land and chieftaincy.

目次

  • List of Tables List of Maps and Illustrations Foreword Notes on the Contributors Ethnicity in Ghana: A Comparative Perspective
  • C.Lentz & P.Nugent In the Mix: Women and Ethnicity Among the Anlo-Ewe
  • S.Greene 'We Stay, Others Come and Go': Identity Among the Mamprusi in Northern Ghana
  • M.Schlottner Asante Nationhood and Colonial Administrators, 1896-1935
  • I.Wilks Be(com)ing Asante, Be(com)ing Akan: Thoughts on Gender, Identity and the Colonial Encounter
  • J.Allman Imagined Martial Communities: Recruiting for the Military and Police in Colonial Ghana, 1860-1960
  • D.Killingray Contested Identities: The History of Ethnicity in Northwestern Ghana
  • C.Lentz 'A Few Lesser Peoples': The Central Togo Minorities and Their Ewe Neighbours
  • P.Nugent The 1994 Civil War in Northern Ghana: The Genesis and Escalation of a 'Tribal' Conflict
  • A.Bogner Promotion of Ghanaian Languages and its Impact on National Unity: The Dagara Language Case
  • S.Bemile Index

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