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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abramson, Allen.

Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society.

Anthropology, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Landscape assessment.

Landscape changes.

Land settlement patterns.

Land tenure--Law and legislation.

Land tenure.

Physical Description:

224 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Land as a resource, rather than a cultural construct.

Contents:

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

3. The Land People Work and the Land the Ecologists Want: Indigenous Land Valorisation in a Greek Island Commu

4. Tract: Locke, Heidegger and Scruffy Hippies in Trees

5. Not So Black and White: The Effects of Aboriginal Law on Australian Legislation

6. The Appropriation of Lands of Law by Lands of Myth in the Caribbean Region

7. Mythic Rites and Land Rights in Northern India

8. Politics, Confusion and Practice: Landownership and De- collectivisation in Ukraine

9. The Re- appropriation of Sakai Land: The Case of a Shrine in Riau ( Indonesia)

10. Bounding the Unbounded: Ancestral Land and Jural Relations in the Interior of Eastern Fiji

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

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

Australia

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

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 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

125

Barbados 128

Barbuda 128

Basa 47

Batak migrants 181

bati 197-8

Baudelaire, C.P. 4

bauxite mining

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

Blackburn, Justice 99

Blunt, E.A.H. 143

Bollin Valley

78

79

80

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

149

Brahmans

139

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

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

Chekhov, A.

7

chowkidars

145

146

Clammer, J.

194

195

Clements, F.E. 49

climax forest regeneration 49-50

Cockpit Country Mountains, Jamaica

119

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]

160

collective ownership

163-4

Columbus, Christopher 117

commensality 140

Commonwealth Native Title Bill [1993]

108-10

111

community

45

and land tenure 43.

mythic perceptions of 54.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849640602

1849640602

9780585426211

058542621X

OCLC:

51008154