The nature of entrustment : intimacy, exchange, and the sacred in Africa /

"This book addresses issues of the keenest interest to anthropologists, specialists on Africa, and those concerned with international aid and development. Drawing on extensive research among the Luo people in western Kenya and abroad over many years, Parker Shipton provides a general ethnograph...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shipton, Parker MacDonald (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
Colección:Yale agrarian studies.
Temas:
Economic anthropology > Great Lakes Region (Africa)
Ceremonial exchange > Great Lakes Region (Africa)
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) > Finance.
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) > Commerce.
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) > Economic conditions.
Anthropologie économique > Grands Lacs, Région des (Afrique)
Échange cérémoniel > Grands Lacs, Région des (Afrique)
Luo (Peuple du Kenya et de Tanzanie) > Finances.
Luo (Peuple du Kenya et de Tanzanie) > Commerce.
Luo (Peuple du Kenya et de Tanzanie) > Conditions économiques.
SCIENCE / General.
Ceremonial exchange
Economic anthropology
Economic history
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) > Economic conditions
Manners and customs
Ökonomische Anthropologie
Tausch
Sozialer Austausch
Great Lakes Region (Africa) > Economic conditions.
Great Lakes Region (Africa) > Social life and customs.
Grands Lacs, Région des (Afrique) > Conditions économiques.
Grands Lacs, Région des (Afrique) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Africa > Great Lakes Region
Luo.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"This book addresses issues of the keenest interest to anthropologists, specialists on Africa, and those concerned with international aid and development. Drawing on extensive research among the Luo people in western Kenya and abroad over many years, Parker Shipton provides a general ethnography with a new theme and theoretical approach." "This book examines how the Luo assess obligations to intimates and strangers, including the dead and the not-yet-born. Borrowing, lending, and serial passing along have ritual, religious, and emotional dimensions no less than economic ones, Shipton shows, and insight into these connections demands a broad rethinking of all international aid plans and programs."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 281 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index.
ISBN:9780300150117
0300150113

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