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Author:

Shipton, Parker MacDonald.

Title:

The nature of entrustment : intimacy, exchange, and the sacred in Africa / Parker Shipton.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

p. cm.

Subject:

Economic anthropology--Great Lakes Region (Africa)
Ceremonial exchange--Great Lakes Region (Africa)
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)--Finance.
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)--Commerce.
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)--Economic conditions.
Great Lakes Region (Africa)--Economic conditions.
Great Lakes Region (Africa)--Social life and customs.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies

ISBN:

0300116012 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300116014 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)72988406

LCCN:

2006033475

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)