{"pk":53830,"title":"For Sale: Geography in Old Nubian Land Sales","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this article I want to focus on the way in which land property is described within the Makuritan kingdom, based on a grammatical analysis of Old Nubian land sales. I will argue that such descriptions are always relative in nature, referring to adjacent plots oriented from south to north on the banks of the Nile. South is thus considered the “up/forward” direction. I will also discuss the multiple ways in which the function and ownership of land can be described.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Nubia"},{"word":"Middle Ages"},{"word":"Law"},{"word":"economy"},{"word":"Geography"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4650770h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Vincent","middle_name":"W.J.","last_name":"van Gerven Oei","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2019-12-19T10:05:38+01:00","date_accepted":"2019-12-19T10:05:38+01:00","date_published":"2019-01-01T01:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/dotawo/article/53830/galley/40730/download/"}]}