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Becoming landowners : entanglements of custom and modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Topics in the contemporary Pacific.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780824856694 0824856694 9780824856670 0824856678 9780824872991 0824872991 |