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Author:
Stead, Victoria C., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016056175
Title:
Becoming landowners : entanglements of custom and modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste / Victoria C. Stead.
Publisher:
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xii, 216 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Land tenure--Papua New Guinea.
Land tenure--Timor-Leste.
Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.
Timor-Leste--Social life and customs.
Land tenure.
Manners and customs.
Papua New Guinea.
Timor-Leste.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Customary connection to land and practices of resilience -- Greeting the state -- Landowner groups and the codification of custom in Papua New Guinea -- Making land work? -- Land titling and state building in postconflict Timor-Leste -- Contesting land, city, state, and nation -- Conclusion.
Series:
Topics in the contemporary Pacific
ISBN:
082485666X
9780824856663
OCLC:
(OCoLC)948176141
LCCN:
2016019021
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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