"Race, Theft, and Ethics shows how African American literature deals with the racialized history of unequal economic opportunity in highly complex and nuanced ways, and illustrates that, for many authors, an essential aspect of their work involved contemplating the tensions betw…
Focusing on the theme of property and community, this study offers a fresh account of the origins of fifteenth-century Observant reform in the monasteries and canonries of the southern Empire. It traces how ideas about reformed community emerged, both beyond and within the relig…
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special signi…