Research Catalog

Title

Ethnicity in Ghana : the limits of invention / edited by Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent ; foreword by Kenneth King.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lentz, Carola.
• Nugent, Paul.

Description

xi, 236 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Ethnicity > Ghana
• Ghana > Ethnic relations
• Ghana > Social life and customs
• Land tenure > Ghana
• Ghana > Politics and government
• Chiefdoms > Ghana
• Language policy > Ghana

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

Sc D 02-422

ISBN

• 0312224052 (cloth)
• 0333733231

LCCN

99023357

OCLC

41176637

Title

Ethnicity in Ghana : the limits of invention / edited by Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent ; foreword by Kenneth King.

Imprint

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lentz, Carola.

Nugent, Paul.

Research Call Number

Sc D 02-422