Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008755271/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 25 of
25
with 100 items per page.
- catalog contributor b12269403.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-392) and index.".
- catalog description "Old and New in Sisalaland -- Some Theory about the Distillation of the Political Economy -- My View of Culture -- Sisala History: War, Trade and Chiefs -- Governance: In the Beginning -- The Coming of the Slave Wars and Trade -- The Sisala in History: Local and Global Influences -- Sipaalaaraa and the Rise of Wartime Leadership -- Nucleation and the Defense of Villages -- Summary: The Influence of Opportunities -- The Role of "Chief" Dolbizan in the Zabarima Slave Wars -- The Relation of Dolbizan to the Zabarima Slavers -- The Nature of Yalingbong, the War Rock -- The Siege at Yalingbong -- Dolbizan and the Zabarima: Summary and Conclusions -- The Establishment of Chiefs by the Colonials: The French -- The Establishment of Chiefs by the Colonials: The British -- Governance Today -- The Changing Family -- The Past: Material Conditions and Structure -- The 1978 Household Structure -- The Petrofarming Revolution and Market Demand, 1998 -- The 1998 Household Structure -- Prostitution, Sex and Marriage -- Changing Marriage Patterns -- The Political Economy of Marriage -- Marriage Defined -- Bridewealth Payments -- The Prestations and Transactions of Marriage -- Returnability of the Bridewealth -- Legitimacy and Patrimony -- A Case of a Bridewealth Payment in Default -- Divination as Negotiation -- The Divinatory Process -- The Five Stages in Divination -- Contact -- Opening of the Bag -- Invocation of the Ancestors -- Removal of the Code Objects -- Interrogation -- Postdivinatory Sacrifice.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 425 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Continuity and change in a West African society.".
- catalog identifier "0890896372".
- catalog isFormatOf "Continuity and change in a West African society.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press,".
- catalog relation "Continuity and change in a West African society.".
- catalog spatial "Ghana.".
- catalog subject "305.896/35 21".
- catalog subject "DT510.43.S57 M45 2001".
- catalog subject "Sisala (African people) Economic conditions.".
- catalog subject "Sisala (African people) Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Sustainable development Ghana.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Old and New in Sisalaland -- Some Theory about the Distillation of the Political Economy -- My View of Culture -- Sisala History: War, Trade and Chiefs -- Governance: In the Beginning -- The Coming of the Slave Wars and Trade -- The Sisala in History: Local and Global Influences -- Sipaalaaraa and the Rise of Wartime Leadership -- Nucleation and the Defense of Villages -- Summary: The Influence of Opportunities -- The Role of "Chief" Dolbizan in the Zabarima Slave Wars -- The Relation of Dolbizan to the Zabarima Slavers -- The Nature of Yalingbong, the War Rock -- The Siege at Yalingbong -- Dolbizan and the Zabarima: Summary and Conclusions -- The Establishment of Chiefs by the Colonials: The French -- The Establishment of Chiefs by the Colonials: The British -- Governance Today -- The Changing Family -- The Past: Material Conditions and Structure -- The 1978 Household Structure -- The Petrofarming Revolution and Market Demand, 1998 -- The 1998 Household Structure -- Prostitution, Sex and Marriage -- Changing Marriage Patterns -- The Political Economy of Marriage -- Marriage Defined -- Bridewealth Payments -- The Prestations and Transactions of Marriage -- Returnability of the Bridewealth -- Legitimacy and Patrimony -- A Case of a Bridewealth Payment in Default -- Divination as Negotiation -- The Divinatory Process -- The Five Stages in Divination -- Contact -- Opening of the Bag -- Invocation of the Ancestors -- Removal of the Code Objects -- Interrogation -- Postdivinatory Sacrifice.".
- catalog title "Continuity and change in a West Africa society : globalization's impact on the Sisala of Ghana / Eugene L. Mendonsa.".
- catalog type "text".