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Title Land, custom, and practice in the South Pacific / edited by R. Gerard Ward and Elizabeth Kingdon
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1995
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995

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 W'PONDS  333.32099 Ger/Lca  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 290 pages : maps. ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge Asia-Pacific studies
Cambridge Asia-Pacific studies.
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Land use and tenure: some comparisons R. Gerard Ward and Elizabeth Kingdon -- 2. Land tenure in the Pacific Islands R. Gerard Ward and Elizabeth Kingdon -- 3 Breathing spaces: customary land tenure in Vanuatu Margaret Rodman -- 4. From corporate to individual land tenure in Western Samoa J. Tim O'Meara -- 5. Right and privilege in Tongan land tenure Kerry James -- 6. Land, law and custom: diverging realities in Fiji R. Gerard Ward -- 7. Beyond the breathing space Antony Hooper and R. Gerard Ward -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary These analysts discuss here how traditional tenure and contemporary practice frequently diverge; how custom has been sometimes invented (and re-invented) and is a source of potential tension; how discordance between 'development' and 'tradition' in relation to land tenure is increasing. Reform of customary and codified systems to match current needs could result in major modifications of the social, economic and geographic character of Pacific Island countries
Land tenure arrangements are intimately linked with the organisation of society, the economy (particularly to land use), the political structure and the geography of most countries. The majority of land in all South Pacific Island countries remains under 'customary' or 'traditional' forms of tenure in which land is normally held by a community group. This book argues that many parts of the region are in the midst of a major transformation in the way in which land is allocated and held by owners and users. These changes are closely related to concurrent changes in the demography and socio-political organisation
Analysis Land Tenure
Oceania
Indigenous populations
Land tenure
Overseas item
Pacific Islands
Social change
Social conditions
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography pages 265-279
Notes English
Subject Land tenure -- Islands of the Pacific.
Land tenure -- Oceania.
SUBJECT Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
Author Kingdon, Elizabeth, 1949-
Ward, R. Gerard.
LC no. 95034425
ISBN 052147289X
ABBREV TI ASIA-PACIFIC STUDIES, 1
Other Titles Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies