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UNINA9910455164303321 |
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Autore |
Shipton Parker MacDonald |
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Titolo |
Mortgaging the ancestors [[electronic resource] ] : ideologies of attachment in Africa / / Parker Shipton |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009 |
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1-282-35194-X |
9786612351945 |
0-300-15274-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Collana |
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Yale agrarian studies series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Land tenure - Africa |
Mortgages - Social aspects - Africa |
Economic anthropology - Africa |
Economics - Sociological aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-314) and index. |
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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. |
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This fascinating interdisciplinary book is about land, belonging, and the mortgage-and how people of different cultural backgrounds understand them in Africa. Drawing on years of ethnographic observation, Parker Shipton discusses how people in Africa's interior feel about their attachment to family, to clan land, and to ancestral graves on the land. He goes on to explain why systems of property, finance, and mortgaging imposed by outsiders threaten Africa's rural people. The book looks briefly at European and North American |
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theories on private property and the mortgage, then shows how these theories have played out as attempted economic reforms in Africa. They affect not just personal ownership and possession, he suggests, but also the complex relationships that add up to civil order and episodic disorder over a longer history. Focusing particular attention on the Luo people of Kenya, Shipton challenges assumptions about rural economic development and calls for a broader understanding of local realities in Africa and beyond. |
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UNINA9910971906803321 |
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Autore |
Chouvy Pierre-Arnaud |
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Titolo |
Opium : Uncovering the Politics of the Poppy |
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London, : I.B.Tauris, 2009 |
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9786612931963 |
9780857730893 |
0857730894 |
9781282931961 |
1282931962 |
9780857715326 |
0857715321 |
9781441681317 |
1441681310 |
9786000041663 |
6000041667 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Drug control -- Asia |
Opium trade -- Asia -- History |
Opium trade -- Political aspects -- Asia |
Opium trade -- Prevention |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Opium: a Drug in Motion through Time and Space; 2. Opium and Heroin in Asia: Early History and Geopolitics; 3. Opium and Heroin in Asia: The Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent; 4. All-Time Highs and Lows; 5. In and Out of the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent; 6. War, Drugs, and the War on Drugs; 7. Opium Poppy Cultivation; 8. Successes and Failures; Conclusion; Drug Trafficking Routes (Maps); Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Opium: bitter, brownish, sticky - and highly addictive. But its impact goes beyond tales of personal pleasure or misery. It is a story played out on an international stage: major powers, local war lords, national governments - all have a stake in the continuing story that is illicit opium production. Pierre Chouvy exposes the politics behind illicit opium production. In particular he explores the remote mountainous regions of Asia that produce 90% of the world's illicit opium - the Golden Triangle of Thailand, Laos and Burma and the Golden Crescent of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. He reveal |
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