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Becoming landowners [electronic resource] :entanglements of custom and modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste / Victoria C. Stead.

By: Stead, Victoria C [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Topics in the contemporary Pacific: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780824856694; 0824856694.Subject(s): Land tenure -- Timor-Leste | Land tenure -- Papua New Guinea | Timor-Leste -- Social life and customs | Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 333.3/15987 Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
Introduction -- Customary connection to land and practices of resilience -- Greeting the state -- Landowner groups and the codification of custom in Papua New Guinea -- Making land work? -- Land titling and state building in postconflict Timor-Leste -- Contesting land, city, state, and nation -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Customary connection to land and practices of resilience -- Greeting the state -- Landowner groups and the codification of custom in Papua New Guinea -- Making land work? -- Land titling and state building in postconflict Timor-Leste -- Contesting land, city, state, and nation -- Conclusion.

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