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Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Nugent, Paul. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; HB; JFC; JFSL; JHM; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
Although African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field of enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume extends many of the distilled insights, but also modifies them in the light of the Ghanaian evidence. The collection is multidisciplinary in scope and spans the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. A central contention of the volume is that, while there were significant regional variations, ethnicity was not purely a colonial `invention'. The boundaries of `we-groups' have constantly mutated from pre-colonial times, while European categorization owed ... Read more
Although African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field of enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume extends many of the distilled insights, but also modifies them in the light of the Ghanaian evidence. The collection is multidisciplinary in scope and spans the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. A central contention of the volume is that, while there were significant regional variations, ethnicity was not purely a colonial `invention'. The boundaries of `we-groups' have constantly mutated from pre-colonial times, while European categorization owed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312224059
SKU
V9780312224059
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99-15
About Na Na
Carola Lentz is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Paul Nugent is Senior Lecturer in African history at the University of Edinburgh.
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