02110nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10348484 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 080418s2009 ctuab sb 001 0 eng 2008017706 GBA8C6016 bnb 014793899 Uk 0300116020 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780300116021 (cloth : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)646861341 f------ HD968 .S55 2009eb 333.3/23096 22 Shipton, Parker MacDonald. Mortgaging the ancestors [electronic resource] : ideologies of attachment in Africa / Parker Shipton. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009. xix, 327 p. : ill., map. Yale agrarian studies series 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. Land tenure Africa. Mortgages Social aspects Africa. Economic anthropology Africa. Economics Sociological aspects. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Yale agrarian studies. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10348484 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 43289 43289