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

Berry, Sara S.

 
9780852556443: Chiefs Know their Boundaries: Essays on Property, Power and the Past in Asante, 1896-1996 (Social History of Africa)

Synopsis

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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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. --International Affairs

Synopsis

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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