Land, law, and environment : mythical land, legal boundaries / / edited by Allen Abramson and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814503703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2000
• ISBN: 1-84964-060-2; 0-585-42621-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 224 p
• Collana: Anthropology, culture, and society
• Altri autori (Persone): AbramsonAllen; TheodossopoulosDimitrios
• Disciplina: 304.2/3
• Soggetti: Human geography; Landscape assessment; Landscape changes; Land settlement patterns; Land tenure - Law and legislation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- 1. Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries: Wondering about Landscape and Other -- Notes -- References -- 2. Whose Forest? Whose Myth? Conceptualisations of Community Forests in Cameroon -- Notes -- References -- 3. The Land People Work and the Land the Ecologists Want: Indigenous Land Valorisation in a Greek Island Commu -- Notes -- References -- 4. Tract: Locke, Heidegger and Scruffy Hippies in Trees -- References -- 5. Not So Black and White: The Effects of Aboriginal Law on Australian Legislation -- Notes -- References -- 6. The Appropriation of Lands of Law by Lands of Myth in the Caribbean Region -- Notes -- References -- 7. Mythic Rites and Land Rights in Northern India -- Notes -- References -- 8. Politics, Confusion and Practice: Landownership and De- collectivisation in Ukraine -- Notes -- References -- 9. The Re- appropriation of Sakai Land: The Case of a Shrine in Riau ( Indonesia) -- Notes -- References -- 10. Bounding the Unbounded: Ancestral Land and Jural Relations in the Interior of Eastern Fiji -- Notes -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Abeng-Blower -- 120 -- 121 -- Aberdeen ; community -- 116-17 -- 122-4 -- Aboriginal Land Rights Act [1976] -- 99-100 -- 102 -- Aboriginal law -- 94 -- 95 -- 96 -- 97 -- 100-1 -- 107 -- Aboriginal people -- and environmental movement 102 -- and environmental movement 105-6 -- and National Parks 105 -- and National Parks 106 -- and National Parks 111 -- as labour force 97 -- as labour force 98 -- cultural heritage 104-5 -- cultural heritage 112 -- genocide of 97 -- land ownership 95-6 -- land ownership 97-8 -- land ownership 99-101 -- land ownership 105 -- land rights 18 -- land rights 94 -- land rights 97 -- land rights 98-102 -- land rights 107 -- relationship with land 8 -- relationship with land 95 -- relationship with land 98.; relationship with land 100 -- relationship with land 129 -- sacred sites 98 -- seen as 'less advanced' 96 -- sense of identity 110 -- traditional affiliation 105 -- usufruct rights 98 -- Aboriginal Reserves -- 97 -- 99 -- 105 -- Accompong Town, Jamaica -- 116 -- 119-22 -- 124 -- Africa -- and indigenous peoples 46-7 -- anthropised rainforests 50 -- individual v. state land ownership 39-40 -- Ahirs -- 140 -- 150 -- aid programmes, and local political context 52-3 -- aletheia -- 85 -- 86 -- 90 -- Aluku 129 -- Ancestral Law 95-6 -- Antigua 128 -- Apache 9 -- Ardener, E. 73 -- Arnhem Land -- 8 -- 99 -- Australia -- and environmental movement 102 -- and environmental movement 104 -- and European heritage 103 -- and technology 98 -- convergence of values 94-5 -- convergence of values 101-2 -- convergence of values 110 -- cultural heritage 93 -- cultural heritage 102-7 -- cultural heritage 112 -- European settlers 95 -- European settlers 96 -- European settlers 97 -- gold rush 97 -- heritage movement 103 -- history of law and land 95-9 -- influence of Aboriginal values 94 -- influence of Aboriginal values 101 -- influence of Aboriginal values 103-4 -- influence of Aboriginal values 112-13 -- legislation 93-4 -- mining industry 98 -- mining industry 105 -- mining industry 107 -- mining industry 108 -- mining industry 110 -- pastoralists 101 -- pastoralists 107 -- pastoralists 108-9 -- pastoralists 111 -- racism 107-8 -- tourism 101 -- Australian Heritage Commission 103 -- Australians -- and identity 103 -- and reconciliation with Aboriginal people 111 -- and reconciliation with Aboriginal people 112 -- changing values 103-4 -- changing values 111 -- relationship with land 93 -- relationship with land 93 -- relationship with land 103 -- relationship with land 103.; Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation [ANTAR] 111 -- Awadh 139 -- BaAka 49 -- Bahamas 128 -- Baka Pygmies 47 -- Bakhtin, M. 9 -- Bansi, Raja of 145 -- Baptist Church -- 124 -- 125 -- Barbados 128 -- Barbuda 128 -- Basa 47 -- Batak migrants 181 -- bati 197-8 -- Baudelaire, C.P. 4 -- bauxite mining -- 116 -- 117 -- 118 -- Bender, B. -- 16 -- 176 -- Beti peoples -- 41 -- 42 -- 43 -- 47-8 -- 53 -- Bhumihars 141 -- biodiversity conservation -- 31 -- 49 -- 52 -- Black Caribs 128 -- black letter law -- 136 -- 137 -- 140 -- Blackburn, Justice 99 -- Blunt, E.A.H. 143 -- Bollin Valley -- 78 -- 79 -- 80 -- 85 -- 88 -- 90-1 -- Borroloola 100 -- boundaries -- absent 11-12 -- absent 202-3 -- and maps 15-16 -- and privatisation 203 -- cultural embeddedness of 18-19 -- defensive 204-5 -- legal 192-3 -- legal 204-7 -- weakness of 205 -- Bourdieu, P. -- 10 -- 54 -- 136 -- 149 -- Brahmans -- 139 -- 140 -- 141 -- British rule in India [angreezi hukumat] -- agricultural calendar 148 -- and annihilation of mythic lands 136 -- and classification of Indian religions 143 -- and classification of Indian religions 144 -- and Indian group classification 137 -- and Indian group classification 140 -- and Indian group classification 143-4 -- and land ownership 139 -- and land ; ownership 144-6 -- and Lands of Myth 138-9 -- and landscape 137 -- and landscape 138 -- cash crop cultivation 148 -- soil classification 148 -- bush clearance, and personal power 42 -- Caltex-Oil-Pacific, Indonesia -- 178 -- 179 -- Cameroon -- 31-55 -- 'customary law' 40-1 -- 'customary law' 42 -- and communal land 38 -- and consultation with people 36 -- and ethnic pluralism 44 -- and French legal theory 38 -- and modern elites 44 -- and political leadership 42 -- and political leadership 43 -- and state institutions 43-4 -- cocoa plantations 41-2.; cocoa plantations 42-3 -- colonial exploitation 40 -- communal initiative group [GIC] 38 -- communal initiative group [GIC] 44 -- community forests 31 -- community forests 35 -- community forests 36 -- community forests 37 -- community forests 38 -- community forests 41 -- community forests 45 -- community-based conservation 31-2 -- disputes 38-9 -- economic crisis 32 -- expatriate interests 32 -- expatriate interests 36 -- expatriate interests 55 -- forced resettlement 43 -- foreign debt 32 -- forest communities 43 -- forest management 34 -- forest peoples 41-5 -- Forestry Law [ 33 -- Forestry Law [ 35-7 -- Forestry Law [ 41 -- Forestry Law [ 46 -- indigenous peoples 46-7 -- infrastructural development 33-4 -- land privatisation 39 -- land tenure 31 -- land tenure 37 -- logging companies 33-4 -- Ministry of Environment and Forestry [MINEF] 35 -- state ownership 31 -- state ownership 37-8 -- traditional 40-2 -- Campaign Against Runway Two [CAR2] -- 78-9 -- 82 -- Campbell, Archie 125 -- Campbell, J.K. -- 68 -- 69 -- Cape York -- 94 -- 112 -- Cape York Regional Agreement [CYRA] 111 -- Caribbean region -- common lands 119 -- common lands 120 -- common lands 121 -- common lands 123 -- common lands 127 -- common lands 128 -- creolisation thesis 117 -- creolisation thesis 128 -- family lands 117 -- family lands 123 -- family lands 124 -- family lands 126 -- family lands 127-9 -- free villages 117 -- free villages 124-6 -- free villages 127 -- land monopoly 116 -- land monopoly 117-19 -- land rights 116-30 -- migration to Africa 118 -- squatting 116 -- squatting 117 -- squatting 123-4 -- squatting 126-7 -- tourism 116 -- tourism 118 -- tourism 128 -- caste -- and 'black letter law' 140 -- and ethnicity 139 -- and hierarchy 139 -- and hierarchy 141 -- and hierarchy 142.; and land ownership 15 -- and land ownership 17 -- and land ownership 136 -- and land ownership 140 -- and land ownership 141-2 -- and marriage 140-1 -- and skin colour 139-40 -- and tribe 143 -- British interpretation of 139 -- British interpretation of 141 -- British interpretation of 143-4 -- in pre-colonial times 142 -- reform 150 -- causality, and technology -- 85-6 -- 87 -- Chamars -- 140 -- 150 -- Chekhov, A. -- 7 -- 16 -- chowkidars -- 145 -- 146 -- Clammer, J. -- 194 -- 195 -- Clements, F.E. 49 -- climax forest regeneration 49-50 -- Cockpit Country Mountains, Jamaica -- 118 -- 119 -- 120 -- 121 -- cocoa plantations, and private land ownership -- 41-2 -- 42-3 -- Codringtons, planter family 128 -- cognatic descent groups 121 -- Collective Agricultural Enterprises [CAEs] -- 157 -- 158 -- and individuals 158 -- and individuals 159 -- and individuals 160 -- and individuals 161 -- and individuals 162 -- and individuals 164 -- and inheritance 165 -- and inheritance 166 -- and labour 171 -- and land ownership rights 162-4 -- and land ownership rights 165-6 -- and land ownership rights 168 -- and share of profits 171 -- and support for houshold plots 170-1 -- fear of fragmentation 19-20 -- fear of fragmentation 159 -- fear of fragmentation 161 -- fear of fragmentation 163 -- fear of fragmentation 172 -- inefficiency of 172 -- land demarcation 158 -- land demarcation 162 -- land ; demarcation 164 -- land demarcation 165 -- land demarcation 166 -- land share certificates 157 -- land share certificates 158-9 -- land share certificates 161-2 -- land share certificates 163 -- collective farms [kolkhoz] -- 157 -- 158 -- 160 -- collective ownership -- 158 -- 163-4 -- Columbus, Christopher 117 -- commensality 140 -- Commonwealth Native Title Bill [1993] -- 108-10 -- 111 -- community -- 45 -- 54 -- and land tenure 43.; mythic perceptions of 54.
• Sommario/riassunto: Land as a resource, rather than a cultural construct.