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Land and the politics of belonging in West Africa
- Title
- Land and the politics of belonging in West Africa / edited by Richard Kuba and Carola Lentz.
- Publication
- Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2006.
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- Description
- viii, 272 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- African social studies series, 1568-1203 ; v. 9
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Land rights and the politics of belonging in Africa : an introduction / Carola Lentz -- First-comers and late-comers : indigenous theories of landownership in West Africa / Carola Lentz -- Spiritual hierarchies and unholy alliances : competing earth priests in a context of migration in southwestern Burkina Faso / Richard Kuba -- Who owns Bolgatanga? : a story of inconclusive encounters / Christian Lund -- Money, ritual, and the politics of belonging in land transaction in western Burkina Faso / Sten Hagberg -- Gold diggers, earth priests, and district heads : land rights and gold mining in southwestern Burkina Faso / Katja Werthmann -- Customary land, mobile labor, and alienation in the Eastern Region of Ghana / Kojo Sebastian Amanor -- Indigenous blood and foreign labor : the "ancestralization" of land rights in Sefwi (Ghana) / Stefano Boni -- The political economy of the natural environment in West African history : Asante and its savanna neighbors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Gareth Austin -- How does an institution evolve? : land, politics, intergenerational relations, and the institution of the tutorat amongst autochthones and immigrants (Gban Region, Côte d'Ivoire) / Jean-Pierre Chauveau -- Privatization and the politics of belonging in West Africa / Sara Berry.
- Call Number
- Sc E 06-636
- ISBN
- 9004148175 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005054236
- OCLC
- 61458392
- Title
- Land and the politics of belonging in West Africa / edited by Richard Kuba and Carola Lentz.
- Imprint
- Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2006.
- Series
- African social studies series, 1568-1203 ; v. 9
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Kuba, Richard.Lentz, Carola.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 06-636