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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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fiduciary culture : a thread in anthropological theory
  • Luo and their livelihood : the Great Lake Basin and beyond
  • Entrustment incarnate : humans and animals over years and generations
  • Teaming up : borrowing, lending, and getting by
  • Marriage on the installment plan : the present and the promised
  • Debts in life and death : shared responsibility and the funerary flow
  • In the passing : inheritance of things and persons
  • Blood, fire, and word : Luo, Christian, and Luo-Christian sacrifice
  • Conclusion : Entrustment and obligation.