Rationales of Ownership - Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea (Paperback)

What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? In the context of a burgeoning discourse of property, these are vital questions. Rationales of Ownership offers conceptual clarification in the context of material, intellectual and cultural resources in Papua New Guinea. The volume is a result of a major research project headed by Marilyn Strathern and Eric Hirsch, and brings together contributions from social anthropology and law. The approaches demonstrated, and conclusions reached, build upon recent understandings developed within Melanesian anthropology, but have far wider significance. The first publication sold out in Papua New Guinea due to the relevance of its approach and contents to lawyers and policy makers in that country. It is here made available to a wider readership, particularly those teaching courses on resource development, cultural and intellectual property, contemporary Pacific societies, environmental degradation, and property itself. ADVANCE PRAISE '...a unique contribution to the discipline's voice in contemporary global debates...this volume represents the best of the comparative, ethnographic tradition providing critical insight into difference and similarity on issues that entangle us all in various degrees of responsibility and care. It will be read by anthropologists, policy makers and all academic and non-academic students of what has come to be seen as the test area of the survival of cultural difference.' Marta Roahtynskyj, University of Guelph Lawrence Kalinoe is Professor and Executive Dean in the School of Law, University of Papua New Guinea. James Leach is Research Fellow, King's College and Associate Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

General

Imprint:	Sean Kingston Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2003
First published:	2004
Authors:	Lawrence Kalinoe • James Leach
Dimensions:	152 x 229 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	156
ISBN-13:	978-0-9545572-1-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Property & real estate Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Land rights Books > Money & Finance > Property & real estate
LSN:	0-9545572-1-2
Barcode:	9780954557218

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