Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana
Carola Lentz
Abstract
This book draws on two decades of research and provides a social and political history of North-Western Ghana. It traces the creation of new ethnic and territorial boundaries, categories and forms of self-understanding, and represents a major contribution to debates on ethnicity, colonialism, and the ‘production of history’. It explores the creation and redefinition of ethnic distinctions and commonalities by African and European actors, showing that ethnicity's power derives from a contradiction: while ethnic identities purport to be non-negotiable, creating permanent bonds, stability and sec ... More
Keywords: ethnicity, North-Western Ghana, colonialism, self-understanding, ethnic identities, ethnic communities, production of history, political history, social history
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748624010 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624010.001.0001 |
