LEADER 03745nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910455164303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-35194-X 010 $a9786612351945 010 $a0-300-15274-4 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300152746 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764778 035 $a(EBL)3420587 035 $a(OCoLC)923594789 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000205749 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11182733 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205749 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10212568 035 $a(PQKB)10460855 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000167156 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420587 035 $a(DE-B1597)485014 035 $a(OCoLC)646861341 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300152746 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420587 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348484 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235194 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764778 100 $a20080418d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMortgaging the ancestors$b[electronic resource] $eideologies of attachment in Africa /$fParker Shipton 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 225 1 $aYale agrarian studies series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-11602-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-314) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aThis fascinating interdisciplinary book is about land, belonging, and the mortgage-and how people of different cultural backgrounds understand them in Africa. Drawing on years of ethnographic observation, Parker Shipton discusses how people in Africa's interior feel about their attachment to family, to clan land, and to ancestral graves on the land. He goes on to explain why systems of property, finance, and mortgaging imposed by outsiders threaten Africa's rural people. The book looks briefly at European and North American theories on private property and the mortgage, then shows how these theories have played out as attempted economic reforms in Africa. They affect not just personal ownership and possession, he suggests, but also the complex relationships that add up to civil order and episodic disorder over a longer history. Focusing particular attention on the Luo people of Kenya, Shipton challenges assumptions about rural economic development and calls for a broader understanding of local realities in Africa and beyond. 410 0$aYale agrarian studies. 606 $aLand tenure$zAfrica 606 $aMortgages$xSocial aspects$zAfrica 606 $aEconomic anthropology$zAfrica 606 $aEconomics$xSociological aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLand tenure 615 0$aMortgages$xSocial aspects 615 0$aEconomic anthropology 615 0$aEconomics$xSociological aspects. 676 $a333.3/23096 700 $aShipton$b Parker MacDonald$01030173 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455164303321 996 $aMortgaging the ancestors$92474413 997 $aUNINA