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 / editor: James F. Weiner ; Editor: Katie Glaskin. - 1 online resource. - Asia-Pacific environment monograph ; 3 . - Asia-Pacific environment monograph ; 3. .

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1. Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Papua New Guinea and Australia: Anthropological Perspectives / A Legal Regime for Issuing Group Titles to Customary Land: Lessons from the East Sepik / Land, Customary and Non-Customary, in East New Britain / Clan-Finding, Clan-Making and the Politics of Identity in a Papua New Guinea Mining Project / From Agency to Agents: Forging Landowner Identities in Porgera / Incorporating Huli: Lessons from the Hides Licence Area / The Foi Incorporated Land Group: Group and Collective Action in the Kutubu Oil Project Area, Papua New Guinea / Local Custom and the Art of Land Group Boundary Maintenance in Papua New Guinea / Determinacy of Groups and the 'Owned Commons' in Papua New Guinea and Torres Strait / Outstation Incorporation as Precursor to a Prescribed Body Corporate / The Measure of Dreams / Laws and Strategies: The Contest to Protect Aboriginal Interests at Coronation Hill / A Regional Approach to Managing Aboriginal Land Title on Cape York / James F. Weiner and Katie Glaskin -- Jim Fingleton -- Keir Martin -- Dan Jorgensen -- Alex Golub -- Laurence Goldman -- James F. Weiner -- Colin Filer -- John Burton -- Katie Glaskin -- Derek Elias -- Robert Levitus -- Paul Memmott, Peter Blackwood and Scott McDougall.

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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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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--History.--Australia
Land use--History.--Papua New Guinea
POLITICAL SCIENCE--World--Australian & Oceanian.
Land titles--Registration and transfer.
Land use.


Australia.
Papua New Guinea.


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