"This is Ghanaian territory!": Land conflicts on a West African border

American Ethnologist

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 273-289

  Lentz, Carola ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Authochthony; Concepts of space; Dagara; Earth shrines; International borders; Land rights; Sisala; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037673696     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2003.30.2.273     Document Type: Review

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