Property relations : renewing the anthropological tradition
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Property relations : renewing the anthropological tradition
Cambridge University Press, 1998
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  Oita
  Miyazaki
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The anthropological tradition approaches property as a 'bundle of rights' and property relationships as social relationships. Rejecting both liberal and socialist approaches, which often neglect the wider social and cultural contexts of property, the contributors to this volume renew and extend the anthropological perspective. The ethnographic case studies include accounts of sharing and intelligence gathering among hunter-gatherers and herders in Africa and in Siberia, land appropriation from native Americans, and the problems associated with the disposal of property in Melanesia. However the anthropological perspective can also illuminate capitalist property relations, and there are fascinating essays on property redistribution in Cyprus and Romania, and on the history of property rights in England and Japan.
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: the embeddedness of property C. M. Hann
- 2. 'Sharing is not a form of exchange': an analysis of property-sharing in immediate-return hunter-gatherer societies James Woodburn
- 3. Property as a way of knowing on Evenki lands in Arctic Siberia David G. Anderson
- 4. Property and social relations in Melanesian anthropology James G. Carrier
- 5. The mystery of property: inheritance and industrialization in England and Japan Alan MacFarlane
- 6. An unsettled frontier: property, blood and US federal policy Paula L. Wagoner
- 7. Property values: ownership, legitimacy and land markets in Northern Cyprus Julie Scott
- 8. Property and power in Transylvania's decollectivization Katherine Verdery
- 9. Property rights, regulation and environmental protection: some Anglo-Romanian contrasts William Howarth
- 10. Dowry and the rights of women to property Jack Goody
- 11. Divisions of interest and languages of ownership Marilyn Strathern
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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