dc.contributor.advisor	Handy, Jim	en_US
dc.contributor.advisor	Horwitz, Simonne	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Kitzan, Lawrence	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Steeves, Jeffery	en_US
dc.creator	Kaye, Tony	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-03T22:27:12Z
dc.date.available	2013-01-03T22:27:12Z
dc.date.created	2011-08	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-10-05	en_US
dc.date.submitted	August 2011	en_US
dc.description.abstract	British colonizers relied on chieftaincies as civilizing partners to implement indirect rule in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast. A major explanation for the British preference for chieftaincies surrounds how colonizers interpreted recent decades of Muslim intermarriage in the savannah. The arrival of Muslim chiefs to the savannah produced a handful of chiefly led communities. These relatively few groups had loose cultural similarities with European society. The British interpreted the commonalities as signs of human progress in the savannah. Conversely, the British rejected the African communities without Islamic traditions because they did not have recognizable or centralized forms of political leadership. Furthermore, depicting non-chiefly groups as wildly different from European society reinforced the modern and progressive identity of Britain while simultaneously representing non-chiefly groups of the protectorate as socially static or infantile. Believing in the superiority of Muslim-based chieftaincies and the inferiority of non-chiefly groups reflected the Orientalist literary depiction the British began in travel and diplomatic correspondence from and about the savannah. This early intelligence gathering from the nineteenth century produced vivid judgments about the relative value of chiefly and non-chiefly communities for colonizers. The British saw the existence of Muslim-derived chieftaincies as proof that Africans required outside intervention to experience change. Consequently, the view justified British imposition and the civilizing mission. This thesis examines a variety of interlocking British documents—travel and diplomatic literature, colonial administrative reporting, and early anthropological studies—to highlight the positive British discourse representing chiefly groups of the Northern Territories.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2011-08-127	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.subject	Colonialism	en_US
dc.subject	Civilizing Mission	en_US
dc.subject	Islam	en_US
dc.subject	Modernity	en_US
dc.subject	Ghanaian History	en_US
dc.subject	Chieftaincy	en_US
dc.title	Civilizing (the) Chiefs : Islam and Indirect Rule in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast	en_US
dc.type.genre	Thesis	en_US
dc.type.material	text	en_US
thesis.degree.department	History	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	History	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Saskatchewan	en_US
thesis.degree.level	Masters	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Master of Arts (M.A.)	en_US

Civilizing (the) Chiefs : Islam and Indirect Rule in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast

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