Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa - Natives and Strangers

Informationen zum Autor Carola Lentz is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University. Klappentext As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determining access to scarce resources and in changing notions of who belongs and who is a stranger. Zusammenfassung 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 labourers Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1. Pushing Frontiers: The Social Organisation of Mobility 2. Staking Claims: Earth Shrines, Ritual Power and Property Rights 3. Setting Boundaries, Negotiating Entitlements: Contested Borders and 'Bundles' of Rights 4. Ethnicity, Autochthony and the Politics of Belonging 5. History vs. history: Contemporary Land Conflicts in a Context of Legal and Institutional Pluralism Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Carola Lentz, Lentz Carola
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2013
• EAN: 9780253009531
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00953-1
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories