Sharing the earth, dividing the land
Subtitle: land and territory in the Austronesian world
By: edited by Thomas Reuter
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781920942694; 9781920942700
Subjects: Ethnology; Southeast Asians; Pacific Islanders
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

For tertiary students.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://epress.anu.edu.au.
Table of contents: title: Land and Territory in the Austronesian World; title: Thomas Reuter; title: The Origin Structure of Kute Among the Gumai: An Analysis of an Indigenous Territorial Institution in the Highlands of South Sumatra Minako Sakai; title: Ritual Domains and Communal Land in the Highlands of Bali; title: Banua or Negara? The Culture of Land in South Bali; title: Graeme MacRae; title: Tanah Berkat (Blessed Land): The Source of the Local in the Banda Islands, Central Maluku Phillip Winn; title: Mapping Buru: The Politics of Territory and Settlement on an Eastern Indonesian Island Barbara Dix Grimes; title: Traditional Territorial Categories and Constituent Institutions in West Seram: The Nili Ela of 'WELE Telu Batai and the Alune Hena of Ma'saman Uwei Christine Boulan-Smit; title: From Domains to Rajadom: Notes on the History of Territorial; title: Categories and Institutions in the Rajadom of Sikka E.D. Lewis; title: We Are Children Of The Land: A Keo Perspective; title: Philipus Tule.; title: Contending for Ritual Control of Land and Polity: Comparisons from the Timor Area of Eastern Indonesia; title: James J. Fox; title: Fataluku Forest Tenures and the Conis Santana National Park in East Timor Andrew McWilliam; title: Self-Scaling the Earth: Relations of Land, Society and Body; title: Among North Mekeo, Papua New Guinea Mark Mosko; title: The Ways of the Land-Tree: Mapping the North Pentecost; title: Social Landscape John P. Taylor; title: Finishing the Land: Identity and Land Use in Pre- and Post-Colonial North Ambrym Mary Patterson; title: People and Place in Tonga: The Social Construction of Fonua in Oceania Steve Francis; title: Postscript: Spatial Categories in Social Context: Tracing a Comparative; title: Understanding of Austronesian Ideas of Ritual Location; title: James J. Fox.