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The nature of entrustment : intimacy, exchange, and the sacred in Africa
- Title
- The nature of entrustment : intimacy, exchange, and the sacred in Africa / Parker Shipton.
- Author
- Shipton, Parker MacDonald.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 281 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Yale agrarian studies
- Subjects
- Great Lakes Region (Africa) > Economic conditions
- Economic anthropology > Great Lakes Region (Africa)
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) > Economic conditions
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) > Finance
- Great Lakes Region (Africa) > Social life and customs
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) > Commerce
- Ceremonial exchange > Great Lakes Region (Africa)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Fiduciary culture : a thread in anthropological theory -- Luo and their livelihood : the Great Lake Basin and beyond -- Entrustment incarnate : humans and animals over years and generations -- Teaming up : borrowing, lending, and getting by -- Marriage on the installment plan : the present and the promised -- Debts in life and death : shared responsibility and the funerary flow -- In the passing : inheritance of things and persons -- Blood, fire, and word : Luo, Christian, and Luo-Christian sacrifice -- Conclusion: Entrustment and obligation.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-5442
- ISBN
- 9780300116014 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0300116012 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006033475
- OCLC
- 72988406
- Author
- Shipton, Parker MacDonald.
- Title
- The nature of entrustment : intimacy, exchange, and the sacred in Africa / Parker Shipton.
- Imprint
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
- Series
- Yale agrarian studies
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-5442Sc E 08-91