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Credit Between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa
ISBN: 9780300181289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 (including perennial World Bank orthodoxy) about the need for credit among African farming people.
Parker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives--cultural, economic, political, and religious-philosophical--and years of field experience to this ... |
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303,36 zł |
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Mortgaging the Ancestors: Ideologies of Attachment in Africa
ISBN: 9780300116021 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 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...
This fascinating interdisciplinary book is about land, belonging, and the mortgage--and how people of different cultural backgrounds understand them i...
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594,23 zł |
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Nature of Entrustment: Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa
ISBN: 9780300116014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 insightful general ethnography. In particular, he focuses closely on nonmonetary forms of exchange and entrustment, moving beyond anthropology's traditional understanding of gifts, loans, and reciprocity. He proposes a new view of the social and symbolic dimensions of economy over the full life course,...
This groundbreaking book addresses issues of the keenest interest to anthropologists, specialists on Africa, and those concerned with international ai...
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464,27 zł |
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Bitter Money
ISBN: 9780913167298 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. fascinating little book adds to the study of culture to political economy MacGaffey Journal of Anthropological Research presents fascinating material on beliefs about money in some Luo-speaking communities of Kenya an insightful analysis a case that will generate fruitful discussions for years to come Ferguson American Ethnologist BITTER MONEY unites symbolic and economic analysis in exploring the beliefs about forbidden exchanges among the Luo of Kenya and other African peoples. Shipton's multi-paradigmatic theoretical explanation briefly summarizes a century of anthropological thought about...
fascinating little book adds to the study of culture to political economy MacGaffey Journal of Anthropological Research presents fascinating material ...
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101,67 zł |
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Land and the Mortgage: History, Culture, Belonging
ISBN: 9781800733480 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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562,49 zł |
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Family Beyond Family: The Varieties of Kinship Experience
ISBN: 9781805397984 / Angielski / 01-12-2024 Książka dostępna od: 01-12-2024 |
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494,40 zł |
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