Table of Contents

Illustrations Tables Acknowledgments Maps 1. "Buying Rope Is a Young Man's Job": Transformations of Culture and Institutions 2. The Serer of Siin: "Le type meme du paysan africain" 3. "Tradition" in the Siin: Contested and Enmeshing 4. Land Pawning as a Response to the Standardization of Tenure Transitions: The Siin Reordered 5. Two Romanticizations: Tenure Confusion after the National Domain Law 6. "The King Has Come--Now Everything Is Ruined": The Promise and Frustration of Syncretic Rural Democracy 7. Culturally Sustainable Development Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

About the Author

Dennis C. Galvan is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Oregon.