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Farmers and the state in colonial Kano : land tenure and the legal imagination
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Farmers and the state in colonial Kano : land tenure and the legal imagination / Steven Pierce.
ISBN
0253346614 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.
Physical Description
xii, 262 pages ; 25 cm.
Notes
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 25, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-257) and index.
Contents
Land and government in Kano
Gandu and the semantic imagination
Inventing land tenure
Succession and secrecy
Litigation and the public
Representation through taxation
The governing fetish.
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