The nature of entrustment : intimacy, exchange, and the sacred in Africa / Parker Shipton.
Material type: TextSeries: Yale agrarian studies seriesPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.Description: xviii, 281 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780300116014 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 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
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- GN645 .S55 2007
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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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