Mortgaging the ancestors : ideologies of attachment in Africa /

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This title looks briefly at European and North American theories on private property and the mortgage, then shows how these theories have played out as attempted economic reforms in Africa.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shipton, Parker MacDonald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Yale agrarian studies.
Temas:
Land tenure > Africa.
Mortgages > Social aspects > Africa.
Economic anthropology > Africa.
Economics > Sociological aspects.
Hypothèques > Aspect social > Afrique.
Anthropologie économique > Afrique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Economics.
Economic anthropology
Economics > Sociological aspects
Land tenure
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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