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Book Title: Mortgaging The Ancestors: Ideologies Of Attachment In Africa
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 1.1in
Item Width: 6.1in
Author: Parker Macdonald Shipton
Publication Name: Mortgaging the Ancestors : Ideologies of Attachment in Africa
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Ser.
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
