Culture and politics in the aboriginal landscape : reflections on the identification of culturally significant places in western North America / Dorothy Kennedy -- The time when the majority in the Israeli 'cabinet' decided 'not to block the possibility of the return of the Arab refugees' and how and why this policy was defeated / Shulamit Carmi and Henry Rosenfeld -- All that fuss over 100 houses : identities and moralities of building on land / Simone Abram -- Out of place : symbolic domains, religious rights and the cultural contract / Davina Cooper -- Ritual distance, territorial divisions : land, power and identity in Central Nepal / Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka -- Imitating ethnicity : land, territoriality and identity in a Swazi Christian church / Fiona Armitage -- From cattle herding to cultivation--from territoriality to land / Michael Saltman -- Land territory and identity in the deterritorialized, transnational Caribbean / Jean Besson.
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In the past, territorial conflict usually involved major powers seeking hegemony over strategic spaces and resources. More recently, however, the decline of opposing global power blocs has elevated ethnicity to a prime cause of conflict over land. This book considers the multiple roles ethnicity plays in fostering territorial conflicts, both violent and non-violent, across the globe. While land disputes relating to nationalism have resulted in the loss of human life in some regions, in others ties betw een ethnicity and land are asserted more peacefully. Nationalism and challenges to the val.
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