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050 00 $aHD1022.Z63$bL86 2008
082 00 $a333.309667$222
100 1 $aLund, Christian.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97097744
245 10 $aLocal politics and the dynamics of property in Africa /$cChristian Lund.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2008.
300 $axiii, 200 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction -- $g2.$t"This Situation Is Incongruous in the Extreme": The History of Land Policies in the Upper Regions of Ghana -- $g3.$tWho Owns Bolgatanga? The Revival of the Earthpriest and Emerging Tensions over Property -- $g4.$tSeizing Opportunities: Chieftaincy, Land, and Local Administration -- $g5.$tSettled Facts or Facts to Settle: Land Conflicts under Institutional Uncertainty -- $g6.$t"Bawku Is Still Volatile": Ethnopolitical Conflict and State Recognition -- $g7.$tThe Rent of Nonenforcement: Access to Forest Resources -- $g8.$tSmall Dams and Fluid Tenure -- $g9.$tConclusion.
520 1 $a"This book provides a detailed analysis of how public authority and the state are formed through debates and struggles over property in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Although scarcity may indeed promote exclusivity, the evidence from Ghana shows that when many institutions contend for the right to authorize claims to land, the result of an effort to unify and clarify the law is to intensify competition among these institutions and to weaken their legitimacy. The book explores particularly how state divestiture of land in 1979 encouraged competition between customary authorities and how, as a result, the institution of the earthpriest was revived. Such processes are key to understanding property and authority in Africa."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLand tenure$zGhana.
650 0 $aRight of property$zGhana.
650 0 $aLocal government$zGhana.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010100034
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007038690-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007038690-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007038690-t.html
852 00 $bleh$hHD1022.Z63$iL86 2008