Disguising chiefs and god as history: Questions on the acephalousness of LoDagaa politics and religion
This article examines two periods in the historiography and ethnography of the LoDagaa of northern Ghana and analyses the similarities between them. In the late 1920s the institution of chieftaincy was written into LoDagaa history by colonial administrators, only two decades after they themselves ha...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1996
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Africa
Year: 1996, Volume: 66, Issue: 2, Pages: 202-247 |
| Further subjects: | B
Historiography
B Great Britain B Tradition B Colonialism B Political elite B People B Religion B Catholicism B Tree trunk Ethnology B Ruling system |