Land and the Mortgage - History, Culture, Belonging

Informationen zum Autor Daivi Rodima-Taylor is Researcher and Lecturer at the African Studies Center of the Pardee School of Global Studies of Boston University. She has conducted longitudinal field research in East Africa, and co-edited special issues of numerous journals. Her work has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Parker Shipton is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, Boston University. Educated at Cornell, Oxford, and Cambridge, he has taught at Harvard and consulted for several international aid agencies. He is also the former President of the Association for Africanist Anthropology. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Daivi Shipton Rodima-Taylor
• Assisted by: Daivi Rodima-Taylor (Editor), Parker Shipton (Editor), Shipton Parker (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781800733480
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-348-0
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: The Human Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / Mortgages, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Ownership & mortgage law, Ownership and mortgage law, Political and Economic Anthropology; Anthropology (General)