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The Nature of Entrustment - Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,056
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The Nature of Entrustment - Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa (Hardcover): Parker MacDonald Shipton

The Nature of Entrustment - Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa (Hardcover)

Parker MacDonald Shipton

Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series

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This groundbreaking book addresses issues of the keenest interest to anthropologists, specialists on Africa, and those concerned with international aid and development. Drawing on extensive research among the Luo people in western Kenya and abroad over many years, Parker Shipton provides an insightful general ethnography. In particular, he focuses closely on nonmonetary forms of exchange and entrustment, moving beyond anthropology's traditional understanding of gifts, loans, and reciprocity. He proposes a new view of the social and symbolic dimensions of economy over the full life course, including transfers between generations. He shows why the enduring cultural values and aspirations of East African people--and others around the world--complicate issues of credit, debt, and compensation.
The book examines how the Luo assess obligations to intimates and strangers, including the dead and the not-yet-born. Borrowing, lending, and serial passing along have ritual, religious, and emotional dimensions no less than economic ones, Shipton shows, and insight into these connections demands a broad rethinking of all international aid plans and programs.

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Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Release date: July 2007
First published: July 2007
Authors: Parker MacDonald Shipton
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11601-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
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LSN: 0-300-11601-2
Barcode: 9780300116014

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