Mortgaging the ancestors : ideologies of attachment in Africa.
"This interdisciplinary book is about land, belonging, and the mortgage - and how people of different cultural backgrounds understand them in Africa. Drawing on years of ethnographic observation, Parker Shipton discusses how people in Africa's interior feel about their attachment to family...
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| Formato: | Ouvrage |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Yale agrarian studies series.
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Table of 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.