Property Relations - Renewing the Anthropological Tradition

Ten diverse ethnographic case studies renew the anthropological perspective on property.

List of contents

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the embeddedness of property C. M. Hann; 2. 'Sharing is not a form of exchange': an analysis of property-sharing in immediate-return hunter-gatherer societies James Woodburn; 3. Property as a way of knowing on Evenki lands in Arctic Siberia David G. Anderson; 4. Property and social relations in Melanesian anthropology James G. Carrier; 5. The mystery of property: inheritance and industrialization in England and Japan Alan MacFarlane; 6. An unsettled frontier: property, blood and US federal policy Paula L. Wagoner; 7. Property values: ownership, legitimacy and land markets in Northern Cyprus Julie Scott; 8. Property and power in Transylvania's decollectivization Katherine Verdery; 9. Property rights, regulation and environmental protection: some Anglo-Romanian contrasts William Howarth; 10. Dowry and the rights of women to property Jack Goody; 11. Divisions of interest and languages of ownership Marilyn Strathern; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

Anthropology traditionally treats property relationships as social relationships, emphasising that material objects carry cultural meanings. Rejecting liberal economic and Marxist views on property, the contributors to this volume renew the anthropological perspective, applying it to a range of ethnographic cases.

Product details

• Authors: C. M. Hann
• Assisted by: C. M. Hann (Editor), Hann C. M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.1998
• EAN: 9780521593892
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59389-2
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Property and real estate