Becoming landowners : entanglements of custom and modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste / Victoria C. Stead.

Author
Stead, Victoria C. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
Description
xii, 216 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Topics in the contemporary Pacific [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-206) and index.
    Contents
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9780824856663 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 082485666X ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016019021
    OCLC
    948176141
    Other standard number
    • 40026573462
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