Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea : anthropological perspectives /

Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea : anthropological perspectives /

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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Weiner, James F., Glaskin, Katie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra : ANU E Press, 2007.
Series:APEM Monographs Series.
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians > Land tenure > Social aspects > Australia.
Papuans > Land tenure > Social aspects > Papua New Guinea.
Land titles > Registration and transfer > Australia.
Land titles > Registration and transfer > Papua New Guinea.
Land use > Australia > History.
Land use > Papua New Guinea > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > World > Australian & Oceanian.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Papua New Guinea and Australia: Anthropological Perspectives / James F. Weiner and Katie Glaskin
  • A Legal Regime for Issuing Group Titles to Customary Land: Lessons from the East Sepik / Jim Fingleton
  • Land, Customary and Non-Customary, in East New Britain / Keir Martin
  • Clan-Finding, Clan-Making and the Politics of Identity in a Papua New Guinea Mining Project / Dan Jorgensen
  • From Agency to Agents: Forging Landowner Identities in Porgera / Alex Golub
  • Incorporating Huli: Lessons from the Hides Licence Area / Laurence Goldman
  • The Foi Incorporated Land Group: Group and Collective Action in the Kutubu Oil Project Area, Papua New Guinea / James F. Weiner
  • Local Custom and the Art of Land Group Boundary Maintenance in Papua New Guinea / Colin Filer
  • Determinacy of Groups and the 'Owned Commons' in Papua New Guinea and Torres Strait / John Burton
  • Outstation Incorporation as Precursor to a Prescribed Body Corporate / Katie Glaskin
  • The Measure of Dreams / Derek Elias
  • Laws and Strategies: The Contest to Protect Aboriginal Interests at Coronation Hill / Robert Levitus
  • A Regional Approach to Managing Aboriginal Land Title on Cape York / Paul Memmott, Peter Blackwood and Scott McDougall.