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Author Shipton, Parker MacDonald.

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

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
©2009
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 327 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Yale agrarian studies series
Yale agrarian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-314) and index.
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.
Summary This title looks briefly at European and North American theories on private property and the mortgage, then shows how these theories have played out as attempted economic reforms in Africa.
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Subject Land tenure -- Africa.
Land tenure.
Africa.
Mortgages -- Social aspects -- Africa.
Mortgages.
Social aspects.
Economic anthropology -- Africa.
Economic anthropology.
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Shipton, Parker MacDonald. Mortgaging the ancestors. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009 0300116020 9780300116021 (DLC) 2008017706 (OCoLC)223870260
ISBN 9780300152746 (electronic book)
0300152744 (electronic book)
128235194X
9781282351943
0300116020 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780300116021 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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