Chiefs Know Their Boundaries: Essays on Property, Power and the Past in Asante, 1896-1996 - Brossura

Berry, Sara S.

 
9780852556443: Chiefs Know Their Boundaries: Essays on Property, Power and the Past in Asante, 1896-1996
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ISBN 10: 0852556446 ISBN 13: 9780852556443
Casa editrice: James Currey, 2001

Sinossi

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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Recensione

... 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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Editore
James Currey
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0852556446
ISBN 13 
9780852556443
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
256
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780325070025: Chiefs Know Their Boundaries: Essays on Property, Power, and the Past in Asante, 1896-1996

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0325070024 ISBN 13:  9780325070025
Casa editrice: Heinemann, 2000
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