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

Berry, Sara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0852556942 ISBN 13: 9780852556948

Publisher: James Currey, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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Review

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

Edition details

• Publisher: James Currey
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0852556942
• ISBN 13: 9780852556948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256