LEADER 02637nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910792005303321 005 20230803023723.0 010 $a0-253-00961-8 035 $a(CKB)2560000000102687 035 $a(EBL)1214548 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000971758 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11531648 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000971758 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10940178 035 $a(PQKB)10280981 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1214548 035 $a(OCoLC)852757024 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29203 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1214548 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10720503 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL498016 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000102687 100 $a20130622d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLand, mobility, and belonging in West Africa$b[electronic resource] /$fCarola Lentz 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-00957-X 311 $a0-253-00953-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPushing 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. 330 $aFocusing 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 606 $aMigrant agricultural laborers$zAfrica, West 606 $aFarmers$zAfrica, West 615 0$aMigrant agricultural laborers 615 0$aFarmers 676 $a307.720966 700 $aLentz$b Carola$01141431 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792005303321 996 $aLand, mobility, and belonging in West Africa$93812908 997 $aUNINA