Mortgaging the ancestors :
Shipton, Parker MacDonald.
Mortgaging the ancestors : ideologies of attachment in Africa / Parker Shipton. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009. - xix, 327 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. - Yale agrarian studies series . - Yale agrarian studies. .
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.
0300116020 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780300116021 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008017706
GBA8C6016 bnb
014793899 Uk
Land tenure--Africa.
Mortgages--Social aspects--Africa.
Economic anthropology--Africa.
Economics--Sociological aspects.
HD968 / .S55 2009
333.3/23096
Mortgaging the ancestors : ideologies of attachment in Africa / Parker Shipton. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009. - xix, 327 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. - Yale agrarian studies series . - Yale agrarian studies. .
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.
0300116020 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780300116021 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008017706
GBA8C6016 bnb
014793899 Uk
Land tenure--Africa.
Mortgages--Social aspects--Africa.
Economic anthropology--Africa.
Economics--Sociological aspects.
HD968 / .S55 2009
333.3/23096