Land documents in Dār Fūr sultanate (Sudan, 1785–1875): Between memory and archives

From some Sub-Saharan societies, scholars have found early land documents pertaining to old land-tenure systems. For the study of the ḥākūra system in the Dār Fūr sultanate (Sudan), a rare combination of 18th- and 19th-century land documents in Arabic and the memories of oral informants provided a g...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: George Michael La Rue
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Institut des Mondes Africains 2016-12-01
Series:Afriques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/afriques/1896