Mortgaging the Ancestors: Ideologies of Attachment in Africa

by Parker MacDonald Shipton and Parker Shipton

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300116020
• ISBN13: 9780300116021
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"