Land Mobilisation in Papua New Guinea
Land Mobilisation in Papua New Guinea

Author: Luke Trebor Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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Investigates the issue of creating economic incentives to achieve and sustain land mobilisation for agricultural uses. Criticises the current system of land tenure in Papua New Guinea for its inability to provide adequate security for market agricultural development. Includes tables, figures, map, appendices and references.

Ownership and Appropriation
Ownership and Appropriation

Author: Veronica Strang

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-06-03

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 100018157X

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In a world of finite resources, expanding populations and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested. Not only are the commons being rapidly enclosed and privatized, but the very idea of what can be owned is expanding, generating conflicts over the ownership of resources, ideas, culture, people, and even parts of people. Understanding processes of ownership and appropriation is not only central to anthropological theorizing but also has major practical applications, for policy, legislative development and conflict resolution.Ownership and Appropriation significantly extends anthropology's long-term concern with property by focusing on everyday notions and acts of owning and appropriating. The chapters document the relationship between ownership, subjectivities and personhood; they demonstrate the critical consequences of materiality and immateriality on what is owned; and they examine the social relations of property. By approaching ownership as social communication and negotiation, the text points to a more dynamic and processual understanding of property, ownership and appropriation.

Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea
Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea

Author: James F. Weiner

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2007-06-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1921313277

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The main theme of this volume is a discussion of the ways in which legal mechanisms, such as the Land Groups Incorporation Act (1974) in PNG, and the Native Title Act (1993) in Australia, do not, as they purport, serve merely to identify and register already-existing customary indigenous landowning groups in these countries. Because the legislation is an integral part of the way in which indigenous people are defined and managed in relation to the State, it serves to elicit particular responses in landowner organisation and self-identification on the part of indigenous people. These pieces of legislation actively contour the progressive evolution of landowner social, territorial and political organisation at all levels in these nation states. The contributors to this volume provide in-depth anthropological case studies of social structural and cultural transformations engendered by the confrontation between states, developers and indigenous communities over rights to customarily owned land.