Custom, Contracts and Cadastres in North-West Rwanda
Custom, Contracts and Cadastres in North-West Rwanda
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卢旺达西北部的海关、合同和地籍
DOI:
10.1080/714000435
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发表时间:
2002
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通讯作者:
Catherine André
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作者:
Catherine André
This study examines the data compiled within the framework of two successive surveys: the first conducted in 1988 and spread over five months; the second took place over a period of 14 months between the end of 1992 and the beginning of 1994. 1 Both successive surveys were conducted on the same hill in north-west Rwanda, in a densely populated region, located near commercial and administrative centres. Here, the land ‘market’is very active and land purchases and sales multiplied between 1988 and 1993: the proportion of land purchased in relation to those inherited increased relatively quickly within both comparable samples [André and Platteau, 1998: 19].Land appropriation and management are conducted according to ‘custom’, which is evolving under pressure from individualistic and exclusive tensions as well as that of the market. The former customary system, ubukonde, is characterised by a patrilineal management and succession of lands with concessions to leasers or land tenants in exchange for fees and services. During the years of Belgian rule, several factors contributed to a certain individualisation of land rights and the proliferation of land sales and