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Becoming landowners : entanglements of custom and modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste / Victoria C. Stead.
Penn Museum Library HD1122 .S74 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stead, Victoria C., author.
- Series:
- Topics in the contemporary Pacific
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land tenure--Papua New Guinea.
- Land tenure.
- Land tenure--Timor-Leste.
- Manners and customs.
- Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Timor-Leste--Social life and customs.
- Timor-Leste.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 216 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Drawing on more than 110 interviews and other published sources, including autobiographics and biographics, Being Political provides a collective portrait of the region's political elite. This is an insider account of political life in the Pacific as seen through the eyes of those who have done the job. Book jacket.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824856663
- 082485666X
- OCLC:
- 948176141
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