Carola Lentz
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German ethnologist
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Carola Lentz's Degrees
- PhD Ethnology University of Cologne
- Masters Ethnology University of Cologne
- Bachelors Ethnology University of Cologne
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carola Lentz is a German social anthropologist and, since November 2020, president of the Goethe-Institut. She is senior research professor at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.
Carola Lentz's Published Works
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Published Works
- The chief, the mine captain and the politician: legitimating power in northern Ghana (1998) (120)
- 'Tribalism' and ethnicity in Africa: a review of four decades of anglophone research (1995) (115)
- Land and the politics of belonging in West Africa (2006) (108)
- ‘ Tribalism ’ and ethnicity in Africa (2000) (85)
- Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana (2006) (77)
- Ethnicity in Ghana (2000) (71)
- ‘Unity for Development’ youth associations in north-western Ghana (1995) (63)
- Colonial Constructions and African Initiatives: The History of Ethnicity in Northwestern Ghana (2000) (62)
- Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa (2013) (53)
- Ethnicity in Ghana : the limits of invention (2000) (53)
- Ethnicity in Ghana: a comparative perspective (2000) (52)
- "This is Ghanaian territory!": Land conflicts on a West African border (2003) (51)
- Decentralization, the State and Conflicts over Local Boundaries in Northern Ghana (2006) (49)
- Local Culture in the National Arena: The Politics of Cultural Festivals in Ghana (2001) (44)
- A Dagara Rebellion against Dagomba Rule? Contested Stories of Origin in North-Western Ghana (1994) (42)
- How does an institution evolve ? : land, politics, intergenerational relations and the institution of the "tutorat" amongst autochthons and immigrants (Gban region, Côte d'Ivoire) (2005) (42)
- Of Hunters, Goats and Earth-Shrines: Settlement Histories and the Politics of Oral Tradition in Northern Ghana (2000) (37)
- Is Land Inalienable? Historical and Current Debates on Land Transfers in Northern Ghana (2010) (35)
- Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention (2001) (34)
- Home, death and leadership: discourses of an educated elite from north-western Ghana* (2007) (34)
- A Working Class in Formation ? Economic Crisis and Strategies of Survival among Dagara Mine Workers in Ghana (1989) (33)
- The 2010 independence jubilees: the politics and aesthetics of national commemoration in Africa (2013) (30)
- “I take an oath to the state, not the government”: Career Trajectories and Professional Ethics of Ghanaian Public Servants (2014) (29)
- Land And The Politics Of Belonging In Africa (2007) (29)
- ARROWS AND EARTH SHRINES: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF DAGARA EXPANSION IN SOUTHERN BURKINA FASO (2002) (26)
- Education, Careers, and Home Ties : The Ethnography of an Emerging Middle Class from Northern Ghana (2012) (26)
- Changing food habits : case studies from Africa, South America and Europe (1999) (26)
- Histories and Political Conflict: A Case Study of Chieftaincy in Nandom, Northwestern Ghana (1993) (26)
- Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa: Natives and Strangers (2013) (25)
- 'They must be Dagaba first and any other thing second...': the colonial and post-colonial creation of ethnic identities in north-western Ghana (1994) (22)
- Celebrating independence jubilees and the millennium: national days in Africa (2013) (21)
- Changing food habits: An introduction (1991) (19)
- WHY THE MOST INCOMPETENT ARE ON THE VILLAGE COUNCIL: Development Projects in an Indian village in Ecuador (1988) (17)
- Of Trees and Earth Shrines: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Settlement Histories in the West African Savanna1 (2001) (16)
- Contested identities: the history of ethnicity in northwestern Ghana (2000) (15)
- "The Time When Politics Came": Ghana's Decolonisation From the Perspective of a Rural Periphery (2002) (15)
- 14 Ethnic Conflict and Changing Dress Codes: A Case Study of an Indian Migrant Village in Highland Ecuador (1995) (10)
- Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges (2020) (10)
- Colonial Ethnography and Political Reform: The Works of A. C. Duncan-Johnstone, R. S. Rattray, J. Eyre-Smith and J. Guiness on Northern Ghana (2023) (10)
- Special theme section: the politics and aesthetics of commemoration: national days in southern Africa (2013) (10)
- Contested boundaries : decentralisation and land conflicts in northwestern Ghana (2001) (8)
- Ghanaian “Monument Wars”. The Contested History of the Nkrumah Statues (2017) (7)
- Performing the national territory: The geography of national-day celebrations (2017) (7)
- 5. 'Tradition' Versus 'Politics': Succession Conflicts in a Chiefdom of North-western Ghana (2000) (6)
- Ghana@50: celebrating the nation, debating the nation (2013) (6)
- African social studies series (2001) (6)
- The politics and aesthetics of commemoration: national days in southern Africa (2013) (5)
- Hard Work, Determination, and Luck: Biographical Narratives of a Northern Ghanaian Elite (2010) (5)
- Creating Ethnic Identities in North-western Ghana (1997) (5)
- Ghana@50 - celebrating the nation: an account from Accra (2007) (5)
- S. W. D. K. GANDAH (1927–2001): INTELLECTUAL AND HISTORIAN FROM NORTHERN GHANA (2012) (5)
- ‘Kakube has come to stay’: the making of a cultural festival in Northern Ghana, 1989–2015 (2017) (5)
- The silent rebel: the missing years: life in the Tamale Middle School (1940-47) (2008) (5)
- World Anthropology with an Accent: The Discipline in Germany since the 1970s (2016) (3)
- The Dagara and Their Neighbors (Burkina Faso and Ghana) (2001) (3)
- Travelling emblems of power (2010) (3)
- Across regional disparities and beyond family ties: A Ghanaian middle class in the making (2021) (3)
- "THIS IS GHANAIAN TERRITORY!" LAND CONFLICTS IN TRANSNATIONAL LOCALITIES ON THE BURKINA FASO-GHANA BORDER (2000) (2)
- Embodying the nation: The production of sameness and difference in national-day parades (2018) (2)
- GANDAH-YIR: THE HOUSE OF THE BRAVE. THE BIOGRAPHY OF A NORTHERN GHANAIAN CHIEF (ca. 1872−1950) (2012) (2)
- Mortgaging the Ancestors: Ideologies of attachment in Africa, by Parker Shipton (2010) (1)
- Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier, by Paul Nugent. Oxford: James Currey and Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2002. xiv + 302 pp. 16.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-472-9 (paperback). (2004) (1)
- Ghanaian “Monument Wars” (2017) (1)
- "Youth associations" und Ethnizität in Nordghana (1999) (1)
- The Making of Middle Classes: Social Mobility and Boundary Work in Global Perspective The Making of Middle Classes: Social Mobility and Boundary Work in Global Perspective Veranstalter: (1969) (1)
- ‘Tradition’ Versus ‘Politics’: Succession Conflicts in a Chiefdom of North-western Ghana (2020) (1)
- Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (review) (2010) (0)
- Imagining Futures (2022) (0)
- THE WRITTEN WORD AND THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana: The Encounter between the LoDagaa and ‘the World on Paper’. By SEAN HAWKINS. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. xv+468. £55 (ISBN 0-8020-4872-2). (2004) (0)
- and critical reflection. 'Championing African excellence', the celebration's of- ficial motto, reflects Ghana's self-confidence vis-ä-vis other African nations. (2007) (0)
- Alexander Keese. Ethnicity and the Colonial State. Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective (1850–1960). [Studies in Global Social History, vol. 22.] Brill, Leiden [etc.] 2016. x, 377 p. ill., maps, €135.00; $175.00. (2017) (0)
- McCaskie, T. C. – Asante Identities: History and Modernity in an African Village 1850-1950. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press (for the International African Institute, London); Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press (“International African Library” 25), 2000, 277 p., bibl., index (2003) (0)
- Martyrs, victims and anti-heroes (2018) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS growing literature on the contested and conflict-ridden history (and present situation) of savannah societies nor with the recent discussion on the social construction of space, African frontiers and land tenure (2007) (0)
- The Political Uses of Ethnography: A Workshop Report (2001) (0)
- DEFYING DICHOTOMIES OF TRADITION VERSUS MODERNITY Tongnaab: The History of a West African God. By JEAN ALLMAN and JOHN PARKER. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xi+301. $65 (ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34665-0); $24.95, paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21806-3). (2007) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1985) (0)
- Curriculum Committee Minutes (2010) (0)
- Regional aspirations and legitimising centres (2018) (0)
- Class and Power in a Stateless Society: revisiting Jack Goody’s ethnography of the LoDagaa (Ghana) (2019) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1978) (0)
- Elie Podeh The Politics of National Celebrations in the Arab Middle East. Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiii + 338 pp., ISBN 978-1-107-00108-4. (2014) (0)
- Things that Place Names Do (2022) (0)
- Colonial Ethnography and Political Reform (2000) (0)
- Reconstructing the Nation in Africa: The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana (review) (2008) (0)
- Settlement histories and ethnic frontiers (2006) (0)
- THE LIZARD MUSEUM, CORNWALL (1982) (0)
- ‘A Man Of Great Foresight’: S. W. D. K. Gandah’s History Of Birifu Naa Gandah (CA. 1872−1950): Editor’s Introduction (2010) (0)
- SETTLEMENT HISTORIES AND ETHNIC (2006) (0)
- Performing the Nation and Staging Ethnic Diversity in Ghanaian National-Day Celebrations (2023) (0)
- Adjusting the clock (2018) (0)
- Studying National Commemoration and Political Celebrations in Africa: The Online Archive African Independence Days (2020) (0)
- Arbeitspapiere / Working Papers Nr. 119 (2010) (0)
- Eugene L. Mendonsa, Continuity and Change in a West African Society: Globalization's Impact on the Sisala of Ghana. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001, 425 pp., US$40.00, ISBN 0 89089 637 2 paperback. (2003) (0)
- Jason Sumich, The Middle Class in Mozambique: the state and the politics of transformation in Southern Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £75 – 978 1 108 47288 3). 2018, 277 pp. (2020) (0)
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