Mortgaging the ancestors ideologies of attachment in Africa /
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c2009.
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| Serier: | Yale agrarian studies.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.