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

Author/creator Shipton, Parker MacDonald
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press,
Descriptionxix, 327 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Yale agrarian studies series
Yale agrarian studies. ^A303919
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-314) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008017706
ISBN0300116020 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780300116021 (cloth : alk. paper)

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