Ethnicity in Ghana : the limits of invention /
"Although African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field to enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume extends many of the distilled insights, but also modifies them in the light of the Ghanaian evidenc...
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Basingstoke : New York, N.Y. :
Macmillan Press ; St. Martin's Press,
2000.
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Ethnicity in Ghana : |b the limits of invention / |c edited by Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent ; foreword by Kenneth King. |
| 260 | |a Basingstoke : |b Macmillan Press ; |a New York, N.Y. : |b St. Martin's Press, |c 2000. | ||
| 300 | |a xi, 236 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 23 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Ethnicity in Ghana : a comparative perspective / Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent -- In the mix : women and ethnicity among the Anlo-Ewe / Sandra E. Greene -- 'We stay, others come and go' : identity among the Mamprusi in northern Ghana / Michael Schlottner -- Asante nationhood and colonial administrators, 1896-1935 / Ivor Wilks -- Be(com)ing Asante, be(com)ing Akan : thoughts on gender, identity and the colonial encounter / Jean Allman -- Imagined martial communities : recruiting for the military and police in colonial Ghana, 1860-1960 / David Killingray -- Contested identities : the history of ethnicity in northwestern Ghana / Carola Lentz -- 'A few lesser peoples' : the Central Togo minorities and their Ewe neighbours / Paul Nugent -- The 1994 civil war in northern Ghana : the genesis and escalation of a 'tribal' conflict / Artur Bogner -- Promotion of Ghanaian languages and its impact on national unity : the Dagara language case / Sebastian K. Bemile. | |
| 520 | 1 | |a "Although African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field to enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume extends many of the distilled insights, but also modifies them in the light of the Ghanaian evidence. The collection is multidisciplinary in scope and spans the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contexts."--Jacket. | |
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