Our Laws, Their Lands
Subtitle: Land Laws and Land Use in Modern Colonial Societies (Periplus Parerga, Band 2)
Contributors: Jap Moor (Editor); Dietmar Rothermund (Editor)
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Published: December 31, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9783825820978
Subjects: General; ASIA; Africa; Central America; Colonization & independence; Environment law; History / General; Land rights; Property, real estate, land & tenancy law; South America; Colonies And Colonization; Reference; Sociology
Description: The European colonial powers imposed their land laws on many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. These were often at variance with indigenous customs regulating land use. After attaining independence the new states mostly adhered to the colonial laws and did not revert to earlier customary law.

The present volume contains contributions to a conference supported by the European Science Foundation and held at the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg in November 1991. The countries discussed by the authors include several West African states, India and Indonesia in Asia and Mexico and Surinam in Latin America. The volume should be of interest to anthropologists and historians as well as to law scholars.