TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shipton,Parker MacDonald
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Mortgaging the ancestors: ideologies of attachment in Africa 
T2  - Yale agrarian studies series
AV  - HD968 .S55 2009
U1  - 333.3/23096 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Africa
KW  - Mortgages
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Economic anthropology
KW  - Economics
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-314) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3420587
ER  -