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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465644203321

Autore

Lentz Carola

Titolo

Land, mobility, and belonging in West Africa [[electronic resource] /] / Carola Lentz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-253-00961-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Disciplina

307.720966

Soggetti

Migrant agricultural laborers - Africa, West

Farmers - Africa, West

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 the politics of belonging -- History versus history: contemporary land conflicts in a context of legal and institutional pluralism.

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa 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. Carola Lentz 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, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determi