| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Topics in the contemporary Pacific |
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Topics in the contemporary Pacific.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Customary connection to land and practices of resilience -- Greeting the state -- Landowner groups and the codification of custom in Papua New Guinea -- Making land work? -- Land titling and state building in postconflict Timor-Leste -- Contesting land, city, state, and nation -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Across Melanesia, as across much of the world, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by modernizing processes of change. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, this work argues, both in the sense that these processes of change compel forms of property relations, and in the sense that 'landowner' and 'custom landowner' become identities to be wielded against the encroachment of both state and capital |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 12, 2016) |
| Subject |
Land tenure -- Papua New Guinea
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Land tenure -- Timor-Leste
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
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Land tenure
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs
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Timor-Leste -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Papua New Guinea
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Timor-Leste
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780824856694 |
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0824856694 |
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9780824856670 |
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0824856678 |
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9780824872991 |
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0824872991 |
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