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Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa : Natives and Strangers /

Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, this book explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. The...

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Autor principal: Lentz, Carola
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Pushing frontiers : the social organization of mobility -- Staking claims : earth shrines, ritual power, and property rights -- Setting boundaries, negotiating entitlements : contested borders and bundles of rights -- Ethnicity, autochthony, and politics of belonging -- History versus history : contemporary land conflicts in a context of legal and institutional pluralism. 
520 |a Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, this book explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. The author seeks to understand how those who claim native status hold sway over others who are perceived to have come later. As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, this book shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determining access to scarce resources and in changing notions of who belongs and who is a stranger. 
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