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Chiefs, subchiefs and local control: negotiations over land, struggles over meaning

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Mitzi Goheen
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Africa , Volume 62 , Issue 3: Rights Over Land: Categories and Controversies , July 1992 , pp. 389 - 412
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Copyright © International African Institute 1992

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