Ethnicity in Ghana
Subtitle: the limits of invention
By: edited by Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent ; foreword by Kenneth King
Contributors: Lentz, Carola; Nugent, Paul
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Ethnicity -- Ghana; Chiefdoms -- Ghana; Land tenure -- Ghana; Language policy -- Ghana; Ghana -- Politics and government; Ghana -- Ethnic relations; Ghana -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Ethnicity in Ghana : a comparative perspective / Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent; title: In the mix : women and ethnicity among the Anlo-Ewe / Sandra E. Greene; title: 'We stay, others come and go' : identity among the Mamprusi in northern Ghana / Michael Schlottner; title: Asante nationhood and colonial administrators, 1896-1935 / Ivor Wilks; title: Be(com)ing Asante, be(com)ing Akan : thoughts on gender, identity and the colonial encounter / Jean Allman; title: Imagined martial communities : recruiting for the military and police in colonial Ghana, 1860-1960 / David Killingray; title: Contested identities : the history of ethnicity in northwestern Ghana / Carola Lentz; title: 'A few lesser peoples' : the Central Togo minorities and their Ewe neighbours / Paul Nugent; title: The 1994 civil war in northern Ghana : the genesis and escalation of a 'tribal' conflict / Artur Bogner; title: Promotion of Ghanaian languages and its impact on national unity : the Dagara language case / Sebastian K. Bemile