Chiefs know their boundaries : essays on property, power, and the past in Asante, 1896-1996
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Chiefs know their boundaries : essays on property, power, and the past in Asante, 1896-1996
（Social history of Africa）
Heinemann , James Currey , David Philip, c2001
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- Heinemann paper
- James Currey cloth
- James Currey paper
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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James Currey paper ISBN 9780852556443
Description
Relates issues of land tenure and entitlement to the history of power in the region.
This text explores the changes and continuities in the ways people have made and exercised claims on the land in Asante, Ghana, during the colonial and postcolonial era.
Table of Contents
- Elusive boundaries
- rent-seeking, land and citizenship in early colonial Asante - unsettled accounts
- stool debts, chieftaincy disputes and the question of Asante constitutionalism - who owns Kumase?
- on the suburban frontier - stories of dispossession, development and indirect democracy
- migrants, tomatoes and history - negotiating family, land and citizenship in Kumawu
- battles for the Afram plains.
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James Currey cloth ISBN 9780852556948
Description
This text explores the changes and continuities in the ways people have made and exercised claims onthe land in Asante, Ghana, during the colonial and postcolonial era.
Table of Contents
- Elusive boundaries
- rent-seeking, land and citizenship in early colonial Asante - unsettled accounts
- stool debts, chieftaincy disputes and the question of Asante constitutionalism - who owns Kumase?
- on the suburban frontier - stories of dispossession, development and indirect democracy
- migrants, tomatoes and history - negotiating family, land and citizenship in Kumawu
- battles for the Afram plains.
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