nature of entrustment
Subtitle: intimacy, exchange, and the sacred in Africa
By: Parker Shipton.
Series: Yale agrarian studies series
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780300116014
Subjects: Economic anthropology -- Africa -- Great Lakes Region.; Ceremonial exchange -- Africa -- Great Lakes Region.; 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 (African) -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-271) and index.
Table of contents: value: Fiduciary culture : a thread in anthropological theory; value: Luo and their livelihood : the Great Lake Basin and beyond; value: Entrustment incarnate : humans and animals over years and generations; value: Teaming up : borrowing, lending, and getting by; value: Marriage on the installment plan : the present and the promised; value: Debts in life and death : shared responsibility and the funerary flow; value: In the passing : inheritance of things and persons; value: Blood, fire, and word : Luo, Christian, and Luo-Christian sacrifice; value: Conclusion : Entrustment and obligation.