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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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1; First Impressions of Pingelap and Conceptual Background; Chapter 2; History and Culture of Pingelap; Chapter 3; Habitat and Economy; Chapter 4; Boundaries, Norms, and Laws in Pingelapese Land Tenure; Chapter 5; Patterns of Pingelapese Land Inheritance; Chapter 6; Confirming the Division of Estates: The Derak Ceremony; Chapter 7; Land Tenure in the Pingelapese Colonies; Chapter 8; Pingelapese Land Tenure and External Relations; Chapter 9; The Pinelap Study in Comparative Perspective; Appendix: Catalogue of the Flora of Pingelap.
  • Glossary of Micronesian TermsNotes; Bibliography; Index.

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