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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.
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- 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
- culture
- Tallensi
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Western Africa
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field Date
- 1986-1987
- Coverage Date
- 1934-1987
- Coverage Place
- Tongo village, Ghana
- Notes
- Volker Riehl
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-41)
- LCCN
- sn 84011005
- LCSH
- Tallensi (African people)