Ubink, Janine M. <br/><br/>
Contesting Land and Custom in Ghana :  State, Chief and the Citizen. 

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<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Contesting land and custom in Ghana: Introduction -- Ancestral property: Land, politics and 'the deeds of the ancestors' in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire -- The changing face of customary land tenure -- Traditional ambiguities and authoritarian interpretations in Sefwi land disputes -- Chiefs, earth priests and the state: Irrigation agriculture, competing institutions and the transformation of land tenure arrangements in Northeastern Ghana -- Customary justice institutions and local Alternative Dispute Resolution: What kind of protection can they offer to customary landholders? -- Struggles for land in peri-urban Kumasi and their effect on popular perceptions of chiefs and chieftaincy -- Risks and opportunities of state intervention in customary land management: Emergent findings from the Land Administration Project Ghana -- References -- Archives -- List of contributors -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789048506088 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Land tenure -- Ghana.<br/>Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Ghana.<br/>Right of property -- Ghana.<br/>Land use -- Ghana.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD1022.Z63 -- C66 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>301