How Foreign of a Country is the Past? Colonial Archives, Customary Law and Land Transactions in Ghana
This paper looks at a set of documents produced in the early 1950s in the Gold Coast to establish land boundaries in a region and to contribute to the crystallization of customary law for future reference and use. The material is placed in a longer historical flow and seen as one of the results of t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017-12-01
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| Series: | Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/subbs-2017-0011 |