Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea : anthropological perspectives / edited by James F. Weiner and Katie Glaskin.
Anthropologists fifty years ago would probably have regarded a collaborative presentation of essays on indigenous land tenure in Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) as a dubious undertaking, if not a category error. Aboriginal and Melanesian systems were functionally distinct, one adapted to the ne...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Canberra :
ANU E Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | Asia-Pacific environment monograph ;
3. |
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | Anthropologists fifty years ago would probably have regarded a collaborative presentation of essays on indigenous land tenure in Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) as a dubious undertaking, if not a category error. Aboriginal and Melanesian systems were functionally distinct, one adapted to the needs of a hunting and gathering economy, the other to sedentary horticulture. Going back another fifty years, such a conjunction would have been intelligible only if its purpose was to exhibit lower and higher stages in cultural evolution. As the authors of the present volume are not motivated by a desire either to overturn functionalism or advance evolutionism, what brings them together in common cause? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1921313277 9781921313271 1921313269 9781921313264 |