Library Resource
Volume 8 Issue 7
Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2019
Botswana, Zambia, Mali, Tanzania, Cameroon, Africa
Recent debates in social anthropology on land acquisitions highlight the need to go further back in history in order to analyse their impacts on local livelihoods. The debate over the commons in economic and ecological anthropology helps us understand some of today’s dynamics by looking at precolonial common property institutions and the way they were transformed by Western colonization to state property and then, later in the age of neoliberalism, to privatization and open access.