Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea
Subtitle: anthropological perspectives
By: Editor: James F. Weiner ; Editor: Katie Glaskin
Series: APEM Monographs Series; APEM Monographs Series
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781921313271; 9781921313264
Subjects: Papuans; Social aspects; Land use; Land titles; Land tenure; Registration and transfer; Aboriginal Australians; History
Description: 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?
Notes: Bibliography.

Issued also in printed form.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Available at publisher's home page: http://epress.anu.edu.au.