Nature of Entrustment Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa

Name: Nature of Entrustment Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa
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ISBN: 9780300116014

ISBN-10: 0300116012

ISBN-13: 9780300116014

Edition: 2007

Authors: Parker MacDonald Shipton

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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…

Book details

List price: $66.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 7/10/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



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


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index