Mortgaging the ancestors ideologies of attachment in Africa /

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Main Author: Shipton, Parker MacDonald
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
Series:Yale agrarian studies.
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300 |a xix, 327 p. :  |b ill., map. 
490 1 |a Yale agrarian studies series 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-314) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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