ISBN:
9781849640602
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1849640602
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058542621X
,
9780585426211
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (v, 224 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Anthropology, culture, and society
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Land, law, and environment
DDC:
304.23
Keywords:
Land tenure Law and legislation
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Human geography
;
Landscape assessment
;
Landscape changes
;
Land settlement patterns
;
Land tenure Law and legislation
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General
;
Human geography
;
Land settlement patterns
;
Land tenure ; Law and legislation
;
Landscape assessment
;
Landscape changes
;
Landrechten
;
Eigendom
;
Grond
;
Economische antropologie
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Annotation
Abstract:
Contributors to this volume take issue with the 'idealist' approach in which land and landscape - place and space - are read as purely expressive and ultimately poetic. They argue that too much emphasis on the subjective construction of land obscures the fundamentally meaningful sense in which land is also used and appropriated: while land may have some subjective, ideological meaning, it exists, also, as a practical resource. The essays focus on postcolonial legacies in land law, contemporary disputes and land claims surrounding ancestral lands, conservation issues and road protests. Areas covered include Western and Eastern Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean, Australia and the Pacific, India and Indonesia.
Abstract:
Mythical land, legal boundaries : wondering about landscape and other tracts / Allen Abramson -- Whose forest, whose myth : conceptualisations of community forests in Cameroon / Philip Burnham -- The land people work and the land the ecologists want : indigenous land valorisation in a Greek island community threatened by conservation law / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Tract : Locke, Heidegger and scruffy hippies in trees / Paul Durman -- Not so black and white : the effects of aboriginal law on Australian legislation / Veronica Strang -- The appropriation of lands of law by lands of myth in the Caribbean Region / Jean Besson -- Mythic rites and land rites in northern India / Kusum Gopal -- Politics, confusion and practice : landownership and de-collectivisation in Ukrain / Louise Perrotta -- The re-appropriation of Sakai Land : the case of a Shrine in Riau (Indonesia) / Nathan Porath -- Bounding the unbounded : ancestral land and Jural relations in the interior of eastern Fiji / Allen Abramson.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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