Property and politics in Sabah, Malaysia
Subtitle: native struggles over land rights
By: Amity A. Doolittle.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Culture, place, and nature
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Malaysia -- Sabah.; Customary law -- Malaysia -- Sabah.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colliding discourses : western land laws and native customary rights in North Borneo, 1881-1928; title: Redefining native customary law in Govuton : struggles over property rights between native peoples and colonial rulers; title: Resources, ideologies, and nationalism : the politics of development in postcolonial Sabah; title: Land disputes in Tempulong : colonial land laws, customary practices, and the postcolonial state, 1950-1996.