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L'évolution foncière de la rive droite du fleuve Sénégal sous la colonisation (Mauritanie)

1994; Éditions de l'EHESS; Volume: 34; Issue: 133 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/cea.1994.2040

1777-5353

Olivier Leservoisier,

African Studies and Ethnography

O. Leservoisier — Changes in Land Tenure on the Northern Shore of the Senegal River during the Colonial Period (Mauritania). Some scholars have tended to minimize the effects of colonization on land tenure. Herein, this impact is shown in four ways: the resettlement of the Senegal River's northern shore following pacification, which affected control over the land; the colonizer's policy of redistributing land; the increasing number of conflicts over land, which cannot be reduced to a mere ethnie opposition between Moors and Haalpulaar'en; and the introduction of ground rent (rempeccen) in the land tenure System. Similar to the failed application of colonial land legislation, changes in land tenure have more often corne out of indirect than direct measures..