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Jean-Pierre Jacob, « Catherine Boone, Property and Political Order in Africa. Land Rights and the Structure of Politics », Anthropologie & développement, ID : 10.4000/anthropodev.449
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The colonial and postcolonial powers in Africa have in the past and continue today to allocate rights to land and natural resources to organize societies politically, using their territories strategically. In her wonderfully complex and well structured book, C. Boone reminds us that they are not unique in doing so, as the examples of the Ottoman Empire, USSR or China show. The author distinguishes from this point of view between two versions of these practices, echoing the old distinction bet...