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Nature of Entrustment
Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa
Inbunden, 2007
931 kr
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This groundbreaking book addresses issues of the keenest interest to anthropologists, specialists on Africa, and those concerned with international aid and development. Drawing on extensive research among the Luo people in western Kenya and abroad over many years, Parker Shipton provides an …
Mortgaging the Ancestors
Ideologies of Attachment in Africa
Inbunden, 2009
912 kr
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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 …
Credit Between Cultures
Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa
Häftad, 2010
619 kr
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Parker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives—cultural, economic, political, and religious-philosophical—and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century …
