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Mortgaging the ancestors : ideologies of attachment in Africa / Parker Shipton.
LIBRA HD968 .S55 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shipton, Parker MacDonald.
- Series:
- Yale agrarian studies
- Yale agrarian studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land tenure--Africa.
- Land tenure.
- Mortgages--Social aspects--Africa.
- Mortgages.
- Economic anthropology--Africa.
- Economic anthropology.
- Economics--Sociological aspects.
- Economics.
- Social aspects.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 327 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Sand and gold: some property history and theory
- Luo and others: migration, settlement, ethnicity
- An earthly anchorage: graves and the grounding of belonging
- Birthright and its borrowing: inheritance and land clientage under pressure
- The thin end: land and credit in the colonial period
- The ghost market: land titling and mortgaging after independence
- Nothing more serious: mortgaging and struggles over ancestral land
- Bigger than law: land and constitutionalism
- Conclusion: property, improperty, and the mortgage.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300116021
- 0300116020
- OCLC:
- 223870260
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