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Mortgaging the ancestors : ideologies of attachment in Africa
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Mortgaging the ancestors : ideologies of attachment in Africa / Parker Shipton.
ISBN
9780300116021 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300116020 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xix, 327 p. :b ill. ; 17 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 10, 2008
Series
Yale agrarian studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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