5171 -- KRÖGER, FRANZ & BARBARA MEIER (Eds.)

##Ghana´s North is a compilation on the region uniting fifteen interdisciplinary articles that provide case studies from the numerous ethnic groups. The central focus is on aspects of adaptation of Northern Ghanaian cultures in view of the rapid change of the natural and cultural environment. The topics range from economic developments, migration, conflicts and peace restoration, land rights, political controversies, religious phenomena, and cultural expression through narratives, music and language. An introductory chapter relates the history of research in Northern Ghana including a bibliography on the most important sources.##

• KRÖGER, FRANZ: Ethnographic Exploration of Northern Ghana
• GOODY, JACK: ´Kalabule´ and the death of African socialism
• CHALFIN, BRENDA: ´The north goes global: Export markets and indigenous commodities
• GRINDAL, BRUCE T.: Why the young leave home: Witchcraft, authority, and the ambiguity of evil in Sisalaland
• MEIER, BARBARA: Living in the bush: Representations of urban life among Northern Ghanaian migrants
• TONAH, STEVE: Conflicts and consensus between migrant Fulani herdsmen and Mamprusi farmers in Northern Ghana
• KUNBUOR, BENJAMIN: Multiple layers of land rights and ´multiple owners´: The case of land disputes in the Upper West Region of Ghana
• LENTZ, CAROLA: Stateless societies or chiefdoms: A debate among Dagara intellectuals
• KIRBY, JON: Peacebuilding in Northern Ghana: Cultural themes and ethnic conflict
• RIEHL, VOLKER: The dynamics of peace: The role of the traditional festivals of the Tallensi in Northern Ghana in creating sustainable peace
• MENDONSA, EUGENE: Political economy in a goatskin bag: Attempted symbolic power creation in Sisala divination
• KRÖGER, FRANZ: Elders - ancestors - sacrifices: Concepts and meanings among the Bulsa
• AWEDOBA, ALBERT K.: The Pepara hunt among the Kasena-Nankana: A way of life or a way of the gods?
• SCHLOTTNER, MICHAEL: ´If I would leave it and stop, it would kill me´: Solima and Reggae among the Kusasi in Northeastern Ghana
• SCHOTT, RÜDIGER: Death and the dead in folk tales of the Bulsa in Northern Ghana
• NADEN, TONY: Greeting a chief and other matters

Keywords: tumbi, ajeoõ, Mpyεmõ, totems, omuziro, akabbiro, kinship and totems, psychoanalysis, ethnopsychoanalysis