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Chiefs Know Their Boundaries: Essays on Property, Power, and the Past in Asante, 1896-1996 (Social History of Africa)
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Product Description
The essays in this volume explore changes and continuities in the ways people have made and exercised claims on land in Asante, Ghana.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2175700 in Books
- Published on: 2000-10-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
a fascinating study of Africa's legal, political and economic modernity ... a rich enquiry into the ways in which the constant re-interpretation of history is crucial to a definition of what constitutes ownership of land. And since the issues of land tenure and entitlement are at the heart of the relationship between wealth and power, in Africa as elsewhere, this discussion casts a revealing light on the relevance of tradition to modernization of the continent. It also brings to the fore the vexed subject of continued significance of customary authority, especially local chiefs, within a political framework that has no constitutionally relevant place for them.' - Patrick Chabal in International Affairs
About the Author
SARA S. BERRY is Professor of History and Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and the author of several books, including Fathers Work for their Sons, winner of the 1985 Herskovits Award. Her most recent book is No Condition is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa.
