Shipton, Parker MacDonald. <br/><br/>
Mortgaging the ancestors  ideologies of attachment in Africa /  [electronic resource] : 
Parker Shipton. 
 - New Haven :  Yale University Press,  c2009. 
 - xix, 327 p. :  ill., map. 
 - Yale agrarian studies series .
 - Yale agrarian studies. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-314) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA8C6016  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label> Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Land tenure--Africa.<br/>Mortgages--Social aspects--Africa.<br/>Economic anthropology--Africa.<br/>Economics--Sociological aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD968  / .S55 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>333.3/23096