Introduction: valuing land in Eastern Africa

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful for funding from the British Institute in Eastern Africa and Durham University, which enabled us to hold the workshop at Durham University in January 2017, which led to this special issue. We would like to thank the workshop discussants, Catherine Boone, Ambreena Manji and Elizabeth Watson for their invaluable comments on the workshop papers and Justin Willis, Zoe Marks and Hélène Neveu Kringelbach for particularly helpful feedback on this introduction. Research by Leonardi on land governance referenced here was funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung Special Programme: Security, Society and the State.

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Notes

1 Graeber’s (2001) book on anthropological theories of value similarly makes no reference to land – rather surprisingly, given that it would seem to illustrate well his arguments for value as meaningful action. Similarly, land is not indexed in van Binsbergen and Geschiere’s (2005) collection revisiting Appadurai (1986).

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Funding

We are grateful for funding from the British Institute in Eastern Africa and Durham University.