Chiefs Know Their Boundaries: Essays on Property, Power and the Past in Asante, 1896-1996 (Social History of Africa) - Tapa blanda

Berry, Sara S.

 
9780852556443: Chiefs Know Their Boundaries: Essays on Property, Power and the Past in Asante, 1896-1996 (Social History of Africa)
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ISBN 10: 0852556446 ISBN 13: 9780852556443
Editorial: James Currey, 2001

Sinopsis

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.

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Críticas

... a fascinating study of Africa's legal, political and economic modernity ... a rich enquiry into the ways in which the constant re-interpretation of history is crucial to a definition of what constitutes ownership of land. And since the issues of land tenure and entitlement are at the heart of the relationship between wealth and power, in Africa as elsewhere, this discussion casts a revealing light on the relevance of tradition to modernization of the continent. It also brings to the fore the vexed subject of continued significance of customary authority, especially local chiefs, within a political framework that has no constitutionally relevant place for them. - Patrick Chabal in INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

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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.

North America: Heinemann

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Editorial
James Currey
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0852556446
ISBN 13 
9780852556443
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
256
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ISBN 10:  0325070024 ISBN 13:  9780325070025
Editorial: Heinemann Educational Books,U.S., 2000
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