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The land is ours: research on the land-use system among the Tallensi in northern Ghana
Cambridge anthropology • 14 (2) • Published In 1990 • Pages: 26-42
By: Riehl, Volker.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses change and continuity in the political, social and religious power of traditional authorities among the Tallensi of northern Ghana. It argues that Tallensi clan heads and ritual leaders have continued to wield significant powers by reinventing their cultural and religious roles in allocating and administering land use rights to adapt to changing political circumstances.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Clans
- Lineages
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Internal trade
- Research and development
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Borrowing and lending
- Contracts
- Cult of the dead
- Gender status
- Kin relationships
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tallensi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1986-1987
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1934-1987
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tongo village, Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Volker Riehl
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-41)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn 84011005
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tallensi (African people)