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Debts and trespasses: land, mortgages, and the ancestors in western Kenya
Africa • 62 (3) • Published In 1992 • Pages: 357-388
By: Shipton, Parker MacDonald.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the experiences of smallholder farmers in Luoland, western Kenya, with government provided farm credit schemes. It shows that farm credit schemes wrongly assume that 'to adopt new crops and inputs, small-scale farmers need financial loans, and that private land titles help them to borrow by providing a form of collateral for mortgages.' It argues that Luo land tenure system, which emphasized the sacredness and inalienability of lineage land rights, prove the inappropriateness of this theory.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Credit
- Borrowing and lending
- Real property
- Research and development
- Real property
- External relations
- Cultural identity and pride
- Ethics
- Labor supply and employment
- Pastoral activities
- Tillage
- Classes
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Luo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1980-1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1992
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Luoland, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Parker Shipton
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 384-386)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)