Record Nr.

UNINA9910137634403321

Titolo

Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea : anthropological perspectives / / edited by James F. Weiner, Katie Glaskin

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University E Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-921313-27-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations, charts

Collana

Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs ; ; 3

Disciplina

347.2

Soggetti

Land titles - Registration and transfer - Australia

Land use - Australia - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The main theme of this volume is a discussion of the ways in which legal mechanisms, such as the Land Groups Incorporation Act (1974) in PNG, and the Native Title Act (1993) in Australia, do not, as they purport, serve merely to identify and register already-existing customary indigenous landowning groups in these countries. Because the legislation is an integral part of the way in which indigenous people are defined and managed in relation to the State, it serves to elicit particular responses in landowner organisation and self-identification on the part of indigenous people. These pieces of legislation actively contour the progressive evolution of landowner social, territorial and political organisation at all levels in these nation states. The contributors to this volume provide in-depth anthropological case studies of social structural and cultural transformations engendered by the confrontation between states, developers and indigenous communities over rights to customarily owned land.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00397401

Autore

WYLD, Cecil Henry

Titolo

A history of modern colloquial English / by Henry Cecil Wyld