Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea : anthropological perspectives / editor: James F. Weiner ; Editor: Katie Glaskin.

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TextSeries: Asia-Pacific environment monograph ; 3.Publisher: Canberra : ANU E Press, 2007Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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9781921313271
1921313277

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306.32 22

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GN449.3

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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.

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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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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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