Becoming Landowners: Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste
(Part of the Topics in the Contemporary Pacific Series)
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Across Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by processes of modernization--globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of postcolonial encounters. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, Stead argues, both in the sense that these processes of change compel forms of property relations, and in the sense that...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824889452
ISBN13:9780824889456
Release Date:April 2022
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:236 Pages
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