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Mortgaging the ancestors

ideologies of attachment in Africa

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Yale University Press
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Subjects

Economic anthropology, Economics, Land tenure, Mortgages, Social aspects of Mortgages, Sociological aspects, Sociological aspects of Economics, Land tenure, africa, Economics, sociological aspects, Social aspects

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Africa
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Mortgaging the ancestors: ideologies of attachment in Africa
2009, Yale University Press
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2009, Yale University Press
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Yale agrarian studies series

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333.3/23096
Library of Congress
HD968 .S55 2009, HD968.S55 2009

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p. cm.
Number of pages
327

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OL16799492M
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9780300116021
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2008017706
OCLC/WorldCat
223870260
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5043568

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OL4541281W

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