02637nam 2200565Ia 450 991079200530332120230803023723.00-253-00961-8(CKB)2560000000102687(EBL)1214548(SSID)ssj0000971758(PQKBManifestationID)11531648(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000971758(PQKBWorkID)10940178(PQKB)10280981(MiAaPQ)EBC1214548(OCoLC)852757024(MdBmJHUP)muse29203(Au-PeEL)EBL1214548(CaPaEBR)ebr10720503(CaONFJC)MIL498016(EXLCZ)99256000000010268720130622d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLand, mobility, and belonging in West Africa[electronic resource] /Carola LentzBloomington Indiana University Pressc20131 online resource (348 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-00957-X 0-253-00953-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 determiMigrant agricultural laborersAfrica, WestFarmersAfrica, WestMigrant agricultural laborersFarmers307.720966Lentz Carola1141431MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792005303321Land, mobility, and belonging in West Africa3812908UNINA