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Chiefs know their boundaries : essays on property, power, and the past in Asante, 1896-1996
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- Creator
- Sara S. Berry
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; Oxford : J. Currey ; Cape Town : D. Philip, [2001]
- ©2001
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- Physical Details
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- xxxix, 226 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780325070032, 0325070032, 9780325070025, 0325070024
- OCLC
- ocm43701702
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-220) and index.
- 1. Elusive Boundaries: Rent-Seeking, Land, and Citizenship in Early Colonial Asante -- 2. Unsettled Accounts: Stool Debts, Chieftaincy Disputes, and the Question of Asante Constitutionalism -- 3. Who Owns Kumase? -- 4. On the Suburban Frontier: Stories of Dispossession, Development, and Indirect Democracy -- 5. Migrants, Tomatoes, and History: Negotiating Family, Land, and Citizenship in Kumawu -- 6. Battles for the Afram Plains
Subjects
- Ashanti (African people) -- Kings and rulers.
- Ashanti (African people) -- Politics and government.
- Ashanti (African people) -- Land tenure.
- Chiefdoms -- Ghana -- History.
- Land tenure -- Ghana -- History.
- Land conflicts -- Ghana -- History.
Land Tenure Center
- Land administration -- Ghana -- History.
Land Tenure Center
- Tenure types, Traditional -- Ghana.
Land Tenure Center
- Kumasi (Ghana) -- Politics and government.
- Kumasi (Ghana) -- Social life and customs.