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    Mortgaging the ancestors : ideologies of attachment in Africa / Parker Shipton. by Shipton, Parker MacDonald

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Sand and gold: some property history and theory -- Luo and others: migration, settlement, ethnicity -- An earthly anchorage: graves and the grounding of belonging -- Birthright and its borrowing: inheritance and land clientage under pressure -- The thin end: land and credit in the colonial period -- The ghost market: land titling and mortgaging after independence -- Nothing more serious: mortgaging and struggles over ancestral land -- Bigger than law: land and constitutionalism -- Conclusion: property, improperty, and the mortgage.…”
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    Daughter of good fortune : a Chinese peasant memoir / Chen Huiqin with Shehong Chen ; introduction by Delia Davin. by Chen, Huiqin, 1931-, Chen, Shehong, 1954-

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…Ancestral home -- War and revolution -- Benefiting from the new marriage law -- Rushing into collective life -- The great leap forward -- "No time for meals all year round" -- Years of ordeal -- Reaching beyond peasant life -- Changes in the family -- Farewell to collective life -- Rural customs and urban life -- A house-purchasing frenzy -- Crossing borders and leaving the ancestral village -- Between the living and the dead -- All our children are "plump seeds" -- Return to ancestral land -- Glossary.…”
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    Patagonia, the colors of a conflict / by José Maldavsky.

    Published 2010
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    Modern America and ancient Rome : an essay in historical comparison and analogy / Simon Kiessling de Courcy. by DeCourcy, Simon Kiessling, 1971-

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…Introductory reflections on the philosophy of history and Oswald Spengler's morphological theory of the high cultural formations -- The four basic stages of ancient and occidental history -- Hellenistic culture, philosophy and art : apoliticism, private aspiration and self-realization -- The degradation of the polis -- European mentalities of the post-imperialist age -- Pan-Hellenism, pan-Europeanism and supra-nationalism -- How the Greeks saw the Romans, and Europeans see the Americans -- How the Romans saw the Greeks, and Americans see the Europeans -- American puritanism and Roman religiousness -- Radical ideology and utopian vision -- Ancestral lands, mobility and depopulation -- Reluctant hegemons -- Present-day America and late Republican Rome.…”
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    Mohawk nation / produced by Third World Newsreel ; by Allan Siegel.

    Published 1978
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    Between two empires : race, history, and transnationalism in Japanese America / Eiichiro Azuma. by Azuma, Eiichiro

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Immigrant transnationalism between two empires -- I: Multiple beginnings -- Mercantilists, colonialists, and laborers: heterogeneous origins of Japanese America -- II: Convergences and divergences -- Re-forming the immigrant masses: the transnational construction of a moral citizenry -- Zaibei doho: racial exclusion and the making of an American minority -- III: Pioneers and successors -- "Pioneers of Japanese development": history making and racial identity -- The problem of generation: preparing the nisei for the future -- Wages of immigrant internationalism: nisei in the ancestral land -- IV: Complexities of immigrant nationalism -- Helping Japan, helping ourselves: the meaning of issei patriotism -- Ethnic nationalism and racial struggle: interethnic relations in the California delta -- Wartime racisms, state nationalisms, and the collapse of immigrant transnationalism.…”
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    Treaty Number Three / written, directed and produced by Danielle Sturk.

    Published 2013
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    [...] / Fady Joudah. by Joudah, Fady, 1971-

    Published 2024
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    Ndebele women / produced by Shelagh Lubbock.

    Published 1997
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    Land, law, and environment : mythical land, legal boundaries / edited by Allen Abramson and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos.

    Published 2000
    Table of Contents: “…Mythical land, legal boundaries : wondering about landscape and other tracts / Allen Abramson -- Whose forest, whose myth : conceptualisations of community forests in Cameroon / Philip Burnham -- The land people work and the land the ecologists want : indigenous land valorisation in a Greek island community threatened by conservation law / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Tract : Locke, Heidegger and scruffy hippies in trees / Paul Durman -- Not so black and white : the effects of aboriginal law on Australian legislation / Veronica Strang -- The appropriation of lands of law by lands of myth in the Caribbean Region / Jean Besson -- Mythic rites and land rites in northern India / Kusum Gopal -- Politics, confusion and practice : landownership and de-collectivisation in Ukrain / Louise Perrotta -- The re-appropriation of Sakai Land : the case of a Shrine in Riau (Indonesia) / Nathan Porath -- Bounding the unbounded : ancestral land and Jural relations in the interior of eastern Fiji / Allen Abramson.…”
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    Patagonia : the Colors of a Conflict / CINEFETE.

    Published 2010
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    Contact : the yanomami Indians of Brazil / produced by Geoffrey O'Connor.

    Published 1991
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    Bosnia hotel / directed by Thomas Balmes. by Balmès, Thomas

    Published 1997
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