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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...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2017]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction
- Customary connection to land and practices of resilience
- Greeting the state
- Landowner groups and the codification of custom in Papua New Guinea
- Making land work?
- Land titling and state building in postconflict Timor-Leste
- Contesting land, city, state, and nation
- Conclusion.