Mortgaging the ancestors :
by Shipton, Parker MacDonald.
Series: Yale agrarian studies series Published by : Yale University Press, (New Haven :) Physical details: xix, 327 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. ISBN:0300116020 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780300116021 (cloth : alk. paper).
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Mortgages
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Social aspects
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Africa.
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Economic anthropology
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Africa.
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Economics
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Sociological aspects.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-314) and index.
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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