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Mortgaging the ancestors

by Shipton, Parker MacDonald.

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Series: Yale agrarian studies series Published by : Yale University Press, (New Haven :) Physical details: xix, 327 p. : ill., map.

Subject(s): Land tenure -- Africa. | Mortgages -- Social aspects -- Africa. | Economic anthropology -- Africa. | Economics -- Sociological aspects. | Electronic books.

Year: 2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-314) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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