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Becoming Landowners: Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste (Topics in Contemporary pacific)
Victoria C. Stead
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Hardcover. Series: Topics in Contemporary Pacific. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMNT; 1MKLP; HBTQ; JHB; JHMC; KCN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Across Melanesia, as across much of the world, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by modernizing processes of change—globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of postcolonial encounters. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, this book 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. In places where customary forms of land tenure have long been ... Read more
Across Melanesia, as across much of the world, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by modernizing processes of change—globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of postcolonial encounters. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, this book 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. In places where customary forms of land tenure have long been ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press
Condition
New
Series
Topics in Contemporary Pacific
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824856663
SKU
V9780824856663
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About Victoria C. Stead
Victoria C. Stead is an anthropologist and a postdoctoral research fellow at Deakin University, Australia.
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