Land and the Mortgage : : History, Culture, Belonging / / ed. by Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Parker Shipton.
The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods. Combining findings from archives, printed records, and live et...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Human Economy ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- INTRODUCTION Land, Finance, Technology: Perspectives on Mortgage Lending
- Part I Situating Land Mortgage in Time and Space
- CHAPTER 1 The Glittering Mortgage, the Vanishing Farm: Enticement, Entrustment, Entrapment
- CHAPTER 2 A Brief Legal and Social History of Mortgage
- CHAPTER 3 Land Tenure From Fiscal Origins to Financialization
- Part II Mortgage as Cultural Export: Land, Family, and the State
- CHAPTER 4 Inheriting Debt: Legal Pluralism, Family Politics, and the Meaning of Wealth in Ghana
- CHAPTER 5 Tales of Mortgage, Risk, and Taxation in Rural Senegal
- CHAPTER 6 Signs of Trouble: Land, Loans, and Investments in Post-confl ict Northern Uganda
- Part III Old Rules and New Twists: Reinventing and Resisting Land Financialization
- CHAPTER 7 Reinventing Land Mortgage in Postsocialist Europe: The Romanian Case
- CHAPTER 8 Distressed Publics: Circumventing the Mortgage from South Africa to Ireland
- CHAPTER 9 Governing the Old City: Land Records, Digitization, and Liquidity in Lahore
- Part IV Coming Full Circle: Hopes, Ideologies, and Life on the Ground
- CHAPTER 10 Mortgage Credit as an Instrument of Economic Growth in Colonial Massachusetts, 1642–1777
- CHAPTER 11 When Land Takes Wing: The Concentration of Holdings and the Human-Animal Dimension
- CONCLUSION Envoi
- Index