TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shipton,Parker MacDonald
TI  - The nature of entrustment: intimacy, exchange, and the sacred in Africa 
T2  - Yale agrarian studies series
SN  - 9780300116014 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - GN645 .S55 2007
U1  - 306.3096 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Economic anthropology
KW  - Great Lakes Region (Africa)
KW  - Ceremonial exchange
KW  - Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)
KW  - Finance
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-271) and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006033475.html
ER  -