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Author:   Allen Abramson ,  Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780745315751

ISBN 10:   0745315755
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   20 November 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

1. Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries: Wondering About Landscape and Other Tracts by Allen Abramson 2. Whose forest? Whose myth? Conceptualisations of Community Forests in Cameroon by Philip Burnham 3. The land people work and the land the ecologists want: indigenous land valorisation in a Greek island community threatened by conservation law by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos 4. Tract: Locke, Heidegger and scruffy hippies in trees by Paul Durman 5. Not So Black and White: the effects of Aboriginal Law on Australian Legislation by Veronica Strang 6. The Appropriation of Lands of Law: Lands of Myth in the Caribbean Region by Jean Besson 7. Mythic Rites and Land Rights in Northern India by Kusum Gopal 8. Politics, Confusion and Practice: Land ownership and de-collectivisation in Ukraine by Louise Perrotta 9. The re-appropriation of Sakai Land: the case of a Shrine in Riau (Indonesia) by Nathan Porath 10. Bounding the unbounded: ancestral land and jural relations in the interior of eastern Fiji by Allen Abramson Index

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'...By stressing both the cultural and economic significance of land this book succeeds in mirroring the complexities surrounding the control of land and how its use is defined' -- Environmental Politics 'Anyone who reads this collection will be impressed not only by its breadth of coverage, but also by the interesting social and cultural practices it reveals' -- James G Carrier, JRAI

This book presents a fascinating array of land-related issues from an anthropological perspective. (It) is particularly valuable as an interdisciplinary tool. This is an intriguing glimpse into non-legal factors that affect how and why laws evolve in the land relations area. Legal scholars interested in land title issues and native land rights will find this book immensely instructive. These essays, written by scholars in the social sciences compiled with a wide range of views and geographic areas of interest, and insightful and thought provoking. The book is a marvelously designed reference manual. It contains a detailed topical index, including cross-references, and marvelous bibliographic resources. In addition, extensive references are cited at the end of each essay, allowing interested readers to pursue their particular area of study further. I commend this book to the attention of legal scholars, social scientists, and other readers interested in native land rights. It will provoke readers to consider this topic from perspectives they otherwise might not. -- Journal of Legal Studies, United States Air Force Academy

'...By stressing both the cultural and economic significance of land this book succeeds in mirroring the complexities surrounding the control of land and how its use is defined' -- Environmental Politics 'Anyone who reads this collection will be impressed not only by its breadth of coverage, but also by the interesting social and cultural practices it reveals' -- James G Carrier, JRAI

Author Information

Allen Abramson is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at University College London. He is the author of Land, Law and Environment (Pluto Press, 2000). Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Ethnographic Research at the University of Kent. He is the author of Land, Law and Environment (Pluto Press, 2000) and Exoticisation Undressed (Manchester University Press, 2016).

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