Becoming Landowners: Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste

by Victoria C Stead

Across Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by processes of modernization--globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of postcolonial encounters. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, Stead argues, both in the sense that these processes of change compel forms of property relations, and in the sense that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824889452
• ISBN13: 9780824889456
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 236 Pages