Bountiful Island : A Study of Land Tenure on a Micronesian Atoll

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In Bountiful Island a major Arctic scholar turns his eye on Micronesia: the small and isolated atoll of Pingelap in Micronesia lies in a moist climatic belt which encourages abundant plant life, including such food plants as coconuts, breadfruit and taro. In this detailed examination of land-tenure...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Damas, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social sciences.
Land tenure.
History.
Ethnology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
social sciences.
history (discipline)
Sciences sociales.
Histoire.
Pingelap (Peuple de Micronesie) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Pingelap (Peuple de Micronesie) > Terres.
Social Sciences
History
Pingelap Island.
Pingelap (Micronesian people) > Social life and customs.
Pingelap (Micronesian people) > Land tenure.
Land tenure > Micronesia.
Land tenure > Micronesia (Federated States) > Pingelap Island.
Ethnology > Micronesia (Federated States) > Pingelap Island.
Micronesia.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In Bountiful Island a major Arctic scholar turns his eye on Micronesia: the small and isolated atoll of Pingelap in Micronesia lies in a moist climatic belt which encourages abundant plant life, including such food plants as coconuts, breadfruit and taro. In this detailed examination of land-tenure practices in the atoll, David Damas argues that the resulting high level of subsistence has brought an expansion of the population which has put great pressures on land. Under these pressures, land tenure has moved from communal usage to lineage control, to individual ownership and transmission rig.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780889208438

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