ISBN:
978-1-80073-348-0 (hardback)
,
978-1-80073-349-7 (eBook)
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 305 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
The _Human Economy volume 9
Keywords:
Landrecht Recht
;
Rechtsgeschichte
;
Kredit
;
Grundeigentum
;
Finanzwesen
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Ghana
;
Senegal
;
Uganda
;
Rumänien
;
Südafrika
;
Massachusetts
;
Pakistan
;
Wirtschaftsethnologie
;
Ethnographie
;
Humanökologie
;
Beziehungen Mensch-Umwelt
;
Beziehungen Mensch-Tier
;
Anthropologie, politische
;
Anthropologie
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods. Combining findings from archives, printed records, and live ethnography, the book describes the changing and problematic assumptions surrounding mortgage. It shows how mortgages affect people on the ground, where local forms of mutuality mix with larger bureaucracies. The outcomes of mortgage in Africa, Europe, Asia, and America challenge economic development orthodoxies, calling for a human-centered exploration of this age-old institution. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations. - Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Keith Hart. - Part I: Situating Land Mortgage in Time and Space -- Part II: Mortgage as Cultural Export: Land, Family, and the State -- Part III: Old Rules and New Twists: Reinventing and Resisting Land Financialization -- Part IV: Coming Full Circle: Hopes, Ideologies, and Life on the Ground -- Conclusion -- Index
Note:
Basiert auf "Symposium "Mortgage across Cultures: Land, Finance and Epistemology", held at the African Studies Center of Boston University in April 2016".
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