Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea
anthropological perspectives
by James F. Weiner and Katie Glaskin
Anthropologists fifty years ago would probably have regarded a collaborative presentation of essays on indigenous land tenure in Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) as a dubious undertaking, if not a category error. Aboriginal and Melanesian systems were functionally distinct, one adapted to the needs of a hunting and gathering economy, the other to sedentary horticulture. Going back another fifty years, such a conjunction would have been intelligible only if its purpose was to exhibit lower and higher stages in cultural evolution. As the authors of the present volume are not motivated by a desire either to overturn functionalism or advance evolutionism, what brings them together in common cause?
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Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea: anthropological perspectives
2007, ANU E Press
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