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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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

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

Stead, Victoria C.
Lal, Brij V.

Paperback

Series: Topics in the Contemporary Pacific

Real EstateAustralia & OceaniaAnthropology

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ISBN10: 0824889452
ISBN13: 9780824889456
Publisher: Univ Of Hawaii Pr
Published: Apr 30 2022
Pages: 236
Language: English

Across Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by processes of modernization--globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of postcolonial encounters. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, Stead 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. In places where customary forms of land tenure have long been dominant, deeply intertwined with senses of self and relationships with others, land now becomes a crucible upon which social relations, power, and culture are reconfigured and reimagined.

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