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1 online resource (348 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Pushing frontiers: the social organization of mobility -- Staking claims: earth shrines, ritual power, and property rights -- Setting boundaries, negotiating entitlements: contested borders and bundles of rights -- Ethnicity, autochthony, and politics of belonging -- History versus history: contemporary land conflicts in a context of legal and institutional pluralism. |
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1 Pushing Frontiers: The Social Organization of Mobility; 2 Staking Claims: Earth Shrines, Ritual Power, and Property Rights; 3 Setting Boundaries, Negotiating Entitlements: Contested Borders and Bundles of Rights; 4 Ethnicity, Autochthony, and the Politics of Belonging; 5 History versus history: Contemporary Land Conflicts in a Context of Legal and Institutional Pluralism; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. |
| Summary |
Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. Carola Lentz seeks to understand how those who claim native status hold sway over others who are perceived to have come later. As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Farmers -- Africa, West.
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Farmers. |
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West Africa. |
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Migrant agricultural laborers -- Africa, West.
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Migrant agricultural laborers. |
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Rural development -- Africa, West.
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Rural development. |
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Land use -- Africa, West.
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Land use. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lentz, Carola. Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2013 9780253009616 |
| ISBN |
9780253009616 electronic book |
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0253009618 electronic book |
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9780253009531 hardback |
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0253009537 hardback |
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025300957X paperback |
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9780253009579 paperback |
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