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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Yale agrarian studies seriesPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.Description: xviii, 281 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780300116014 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3096 22
LOC classification:
  • GN645 .S55 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Zetech Library - Mang'u General Stacks Non-fiction GN645 .S55 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Z011169

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.

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