Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
anthropological perspectives /
First Statement of Responsibility
editor: James F. Weiner ; Editor: Katie Glaskin.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Canberra :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
ANU E Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource.
SERIES
Series Title
Asia-Pacific environment monograph ;
Volume Designation
3
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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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ANU E Press, WK Hancock Library, The Australian National University ACT 0200, web site: http://epress.anu.edu.au
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JSTOR
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22573/ctt236hv1
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Aboriginal Australians-- Land tenure-- Social aspects-- Australia.
Land titles-- Registration and transfer-- Australia.
Land titles-- Registration and transfer-- Papua New Guinea.
Land use-- Australia-- History.
Land use-- Papua New Guinea-- History.
Papuans-- Land tenure-- Social aspects-- Papua New Guinea.
Land titles-- Registration and transfer.
Land use.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- World-- Australian & Oceanian.