Land, Custom and Practice in the South Pacific.

The Contemporary Pacific;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......290 pages. Cloth, A$80.00; US$59.95. Land tenure is one of the enduring themes of studies...present first a wide-ranging survey of land tenure, drawing examples from as far afield...and dynamism of communal systems of land tenure, the effect of commodification of land...

MERET SHEHENA, `BROTHERS' LAND' S. F. NADEL'S LAND TENURE ON THE ERITREAN...

Africa;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......article revisits S.F. Nadel's study on land tenure in highland Eritrea from the mid-1940s...the current framework of the communal land tenure system of meret shehena. Under the meret...and ethnic diversity and the various land tenure systems to be found in the highlands...

Contributions legal scholars can make to development economics: examples...

William and Mary Law Review;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......INTRODUCTION I. BENEFITS TO EMERGING ECONOMIES FROM LAND TENURE SECURITY A. Contribution of Land Tenure Security to Credit Enhancement and a Sustainable Market Economy B. Necessity of Land Tenure Security to Stimulate Foreign Investment...

Bountiful Island: A Study of Land Tenure on a Micronesian Atoll.

Oceania;  December 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......Damas's exploration of changes in Pingelap land tenure. Readers who do not attend carefully...consider Damas's book. His focus on land tenure derives partly from the theoretical...imposition of a series of colonial land tenure codes, and colonially-provided opportunities...

Qld: Brough seeks talks with Beattie on land tenure

AAP General News (Australia);  February 13, 2007 ;     346 words ......Brough seeks talks with Beattie on land tenure BRISBANE, Feb 13 AAP - Federal Indigenous...Premier Peter Beattie on Friday to discuss land tenure for Aboriginal Communities. Mr Beattie...tackling the toughest issues, particularly land tenure. "Until this critical issue is seriously...

On Understanding Too Quickly: Colonial and Postcolonial Misrepresentation...

Human Organization;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......government attempts to understand Fijian land tenure led to confusion about its nature and...lineage system, the mataqali. Actual land tenure is, however, more complex, and in many...Vitilevu, this paper shows how Fijian land tenure cannot be reduced to its superficial...

Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal...

African Studies Review;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination. Bloomington...concern the apparent seductiveness of "land tenure" as a stand-in for relations of government...governmental processes that affected land tenure inhered in institutions that we would...

Land tenure and allocative efficiency in Niger.

American Journal of Agricultural Economics;  May 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......particular, many hold the view that the land tenure systems of Africa are in crisis. Because...allocation, and, thus, productivity. Land tenure is also thought to influence agricultural...distinguish between the security of specific land tenure contracts and the security of the ...

Land tenure delegitimation and social mobility in Tropical Peten,...

Human Organization;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Lack of legitimacy of land tenure institutions in the tropical Peten...studies present the complexities of land tenure institutions. The first analyzes...small farmers, the second discusses land tenure barriers to protection of indigenous...

The tragedy of property: Ecology and land tenure in southeastern Zimbabwe

Human Organization;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......in southeastern Zimbabwe. Key words: land tenure, common property, Zimbabwe Good fences...look at some of the linkages between land tenure, ecology and development through a case...practices through a dualist system of land tenure: private property in the European dominated...

Workshop on security of land tenure opens in Kenya

Xinhua News Agency;  June 12, 2003 ;     257 words ...Workshop on security of land tenure opens in Kenya NAIROBI, June 12 (Xinhua) -- A workshop on security of land tenure opened here Thursday with participants...cities without slums," "security of land tenure and best practice," and "surveying...

(book reviews)

Pacific Affairs;  June 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ......for monopolizing constructions of aboriginal societies and cultures). Borrowing from Said...Having never done fieldwork in aboriginal societies, they have no firsthand knowledge...of secret meanings. The fact that aboriginal societies were nonliterate makes this privileging...

Women's movements, customary law, and land rights in Africa: the case of...

African Studies Quarterly;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Much of the literature on women and land tenure in Africa has viewed the introduction...policymakers around the view that sees land tenure policy as building on customary systems...women's movements challenging customary land tenure practices. If women were benefiting...

land tenure

Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      59 words ...land tenure The system of laws or customs that governs how people use and inhabit the land. Land tenure has been a major subject of anthropological research because it is frequently crucial to the organization of nonindustrialized societies and...

Land in Kwara'ae and development in Solomon Islands.

Oceania;  June 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Land tenure is a pressing concern for the peoples...Malaita, and this paper documents Kwara'ae land tenure in the hope of contributing to a better...another. What we choose to distinguish as 'land tenure' entails values basic to the tribal social...