Becoming Landowners - Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor

Informationen zum Autor Victoria C. Stead is an anthropologist and a postdoctoral research fellow at Deakin University, Australia. Klappentext Across Melanesia, as across much of the world, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by modernizing processes of change. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, this book argues, both in the sense that these processes of change compel forms of property relations, and in the sense that "landowner” and "custom landowner” become identities to be wielded against the encroachment of both state and capital.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria C Stead, Victoria C. Stead, Victoria C./ Lal Stead
• Assisted by: Brij V Lal (Editor), Brij V. Lal (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780824856663
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-5666-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Topics in the Contemporary Pac; Topics in Contemporary Pacific; Topics in the Contemporary Pac; Topics in the Contemporary Pacific
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches