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

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9780852556948: 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: 0852556942 ISBN 13: 9780852556948
Publisher: James Currey, 2001

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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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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

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

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