Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea : anthropological perspectives.

Canberra : ANU E Press, 2007.

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Native title (Australia)

Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.

Papuans -- Land tenure.

Land use -- History -- Australia.

Papua New Guinea -- Land tenure.

1. Customary land tenure and registration in Papua New Guinea and Australia: anthropological perspectives

2. A legal regime for issuing group titles to customary land: lessons from the East Sepik

3. Land, customary and non-customary, in East New Britain

4. Clan-finding, clan-making and the politics of identity in a Papua New Guinea mining project

5. From agency to agents: forging landowner identities in Porgera

6. Incorporating Huli: lessons from the Hides License Area

7. The Foi Incorporated Land Group: group definition and collective action in the Kutubu Oil Project Area, Papua New Guinea

8. Local custom and the Art of Land Group boundary maintenance in Papua New Guinea

9. Determinacy of groups and the owned commons in Papua New Guinea and Torres Strait

10. Outstation incorporation as precursor to a presecribed body corporate

11. The measure of dreams

12. Laws and strategies: the contest to protect Aboriginal interests at Coronation Hill

13. A regional approach to managing Aboriginal land title on Cape York.

The contributors to this volume provide in-depth anthropological case studies of social, structural and cultural transformations engendered by the confrontation between states, developers and indigenous communities over rights to customarily owned land.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

South Pacific Collection.

9781921313264

xix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm