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Mortgaging the ancestors : ideologies of attachment in Africa / Parker Shipton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Yale agrarian studiesPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.Description: xix, 327 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0300116020 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780300116021 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.3/23096 22
LOC classification:
  • HD968 .S55 2009
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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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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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