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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Otros Autores: Weiner, James F. (-), Glaskin, Katie
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra : ANU E Press 2007.
Colección:Open Research Library ebooks.
Asia-Pacific environment monograph ; 3.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario: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?
Descripción Física:1 recurso electrónico
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
ISBN:9781921313271