03745nam 2200709 a 450 991045516430332120200520144314.01-282-35194-X97866123519450-300-15274-410.12987/9780300152746(CKB)1000000000764778(EBL)3420587(OCoLC)923594789(SSID)ssj0000205749(PQKBManifestationID)11182733(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205749(PQKBWorkID)10212568(PQKB)10460855(StDuBDS)EDZ0000167156(MiAaPQ)EBC3420587(DE-B1597)485014(OCoLC)646861341(DE-B1597)9780300152746(Au-PeEL)EBL3420587(CaPaEBR)ebr10348484(CaONFJC)MIL235194(EXLCZ)99100000000076477820080418d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMortgaging the ancestors[electronic resource] ideologies of attachment in Africa /Parker ShiptonNew Haven Yale University Pressc20091 online resource (348 p.)Yale agrarian studies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-300-11602-0 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.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 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.Yale agrarian studies.Land tenureAfricaMortgagesSocial aspectsAfricaEconomic anthropologyAfricaEconomicsSociological aspectsElectronic books.Land tenureMortgagesSocial aspectsEconomic anthropologyEconomicsSociological aspects.333.3/23096Shipton Parker MacDonald1030173MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455164303321Mortgaging the ancestors2474413UNINA