An edition of Mortgaging the ancestors
(2009)
Mortgaging the ancestors
ideologies of attachment in Africa
by Parker MacDonald Shipton
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Mortgaging the Ancestors: Ideologies of Attachment in Africa
2009, Yale University Press
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Mortgaging the ancestors: ideologies of attachment in Africa
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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