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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Main Author: Perneş Raluca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-12-01
Series:Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/subbs-2017-0011