Land, Law and Environment Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries

by Abramson, Allen; Theodossopoulus, Dimitrios

• ISBN13: 9780745315751
• ISBN10: 0745315755
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-20
• Publisher: Pluto Press

Summary

Emphasises the importance of land as a resource, rather than a cultural construct, exploring the ways property, land and identity are linked.

Author Biography

Allen Abramson is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at University College London. He has also taught in the Universities of the South Pacific (Fiji), Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a lecturer in the Anthropology Department at University of Wales Lampeter.

Table of Contents

Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries: Wondering about Landscape and Other Tracts	1	(31)
Allen Abramson
Whose Forest? Whose Myth? Conceptualisations of Community Forests in Cameroon	31	(28)
Philip Burnham
The Land People Work and the Land the Ecologists Want: Indigenous Land Valorisation in a Greek Island Community Threatened by Conservation Law	59	(19)
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Tract: Locke, Heidegger and Scruffy Hippies in Trees	78	(15)
Paul Durman
Not So Black and White: The Effects of Aboriginal Law on Australian Legislation	93	(23)
Veronica Strang
The Appropriation of Lands of Law by Lands of Myth in the Caribbean Region	116	(20)
Jean Besson
Mythic Rites and Land Rights in Northern India	136	(20)
Kusum Gopal
Politics, Confusion and Practice: Landownership and De-collectivisation in Ukraine	156	(20)
Louise Perrotta
The Re-appropriation of Sakai Land: The Case of a Shrine in Riau (Indonesia)	176	(15)
Nathan Porath
Bounding the Unbounded: Ancestral Land and Jural Relations in the Interior of Eastern Fiji	191	(20)
Allen Abramson
Notes on Contributors	211	(2)
Index	213