...The Politics of Inheritance ...

... waiting to return to Canadian courts, the young woman entrusted with “inheriting” Date Creek is now learning to promote these multigenerational commitments as a new model of technical stewardship. fieldwork ecology inheritance succession ...

... The epilogue explores the world that data leaves in its wake. This final section of the book points toward the various excesses and losses inherited by a data system that has consumed not only the land but also the sky. By focusing on the legacy of defunct meteorological satellites, the epilogue...

... with regard to two related parts of the state—the culture of the military and the apparatus of law. For many of the problems that Nigerians faced during military rule, colonialism’s jumbled inheritance was both the wound and the remedy. The challenge, both for those who supported military rule and those who...

... then moves on to lay out the basic structure of trusts as legal instruments and their inheritances from three distinct socio-legal histories: Zoroastrian forms of religious charity, English law, and Islamic concepts of giving and keeping. It will briefly introduce the reader to the Parsi community in India...

...Complicated Inheritances ...