Becoming Landowners : : Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste /

Becoming Landowners : : Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste / / Victoria C. Stead; ed. by Brij V. Lal.

Across Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by processes of modernization-globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of postcolonial encounters. Melanesian peoples...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Stead, Victoria C.,
HerausgeberIn:
Lal, Brij V.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Topics in the Contemporary Pacific
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 14 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Customary Connection to Land and Practices of Resilience
  • Chapter 3. Greeting the State
  • Chapter 4. Landowner Groups and the Codification of Custom in Papua New Guinea
  • Chapter 5. Making Land Work?
  • Chapter 6. Land Titling and State Building in Postconflict Timor-Leste
  • Chapter 7. Contesting Land, City, State, and Nation
  • Chapter 8. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index

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