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Originally published in 1963 this volume surveys various aspects of the complex relations between rights in land, social organization and economic interests in tropical Africa. The papers - in English and French but with summaries in the other language - analyse case studies illustrating the various basic factors and problems connected with land in Tropical Africa. Indigenous systems of tenure and their adaptation to commercial agriculture, the balance between rights and obligations of groups and individuals, and the authority and duties of chiefs and headmen are discussed in detail for many different areas. Against this background important contributions are made towards the better understanding of problems raised by economic and political development, population increase, migration and scarcity of land.

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Author:   Daniel Biebuyck
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.940kg
ISBN:  

9781138489356

ISBN 10:   1138489352
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   22 August 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction Problèmes d'analyse et de terminologie 2. Tenure foncière et développements historiques 3. Droits foncers, pénurie et valorisation des terres 4. Tenure foncière et valeurs religieuses 5. Plans de développement et réformes foncières 6. English Summary Part 2: Special Studies 1. Land Tenure Problems in Relation to Agricultural Development in the Norther Region of Nigeria 2. Systèmes de tenure foncière et problèmes fonciers au Congo 3. 'Land', 'Tenure' and Land-Tenure4. Les rapports du système foncier Toucouleur et de l'organisation sociale et économique traditionelle. Leur évolution actuelle 5. Land Rights and Land Use among the Valley Tonga of the Rhodesian Federation: The Background to the Kariba Resettlement Programme 6. Aspects politico-sociaux du système de tenure des terres des Luunda Septentrionaux 7. Quelques aspects juridiques du problème foncier au Congo 8. The Land Husbandry Act of Southern Rhodesia 9. Three Types of Southern Ghanaian Cocoa Farmer 10. Land Consolidation and Redistribution of Population in the Imenti Sub-Tribe of the Meru (Kenya) 11. Land as an Object of Gain in a Non-Literate Society. Land-Tenure Among the Bete and Dida (Ivory Coast, West Africa) 12. Some Effects of the Introduction of Individual Freehold into Buganda 13. La propriété foncière chez les Kongo du Nord-Ouest. Caractéristiques générales et évolution 14. Développement du régime d'appropriation privée des terres de la palmerai du Sud-Dahomey 15. Essai sur quelques problèmes relatifs au régime foncier des Diola de Basse-Casamance (Sénégal) 16. Problèmes posés par l'introduction de nouveaux modes d'usage des terres chez les Zande vungara du Congo Belge 17. Les régimes fonciers Ruanda et Kuba: une comparaison 18. Factors Determining the Content of African Land-Tenure systems in Northern Rhodesia 19. Effects on the Xhosa and Nyakyusa of Scarcity of Land 20. Problèmes sociaux posés par la transplantation des Mossi sur les teres irriguées de l'Office du Niger

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In 1989, Daniel Biebuyck retired from the University of Delaware as H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Anthropology and the Humanities. As professor, adjunct or visiting professor, he taught at the following universities: University of Delaware, Lovanium University, Liege University, London University, University of California at Los Angeles, Yale University, New York University, University of Southern Florida: Golding Distinguished Professor of African art.

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