Property Relations: Renewing the Anthropological Tradition

Type

Book

Authors

ISBN 10

052159636X

ISBN 13

9780521596367

Tags

Social Sciences, Cultural, General, Anthropology

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 among hunter-gatherers and herders in Africa and "intelligence gathering" among Siberian herders, land appropriation from Native Americans, and problems of ownership and disposal in Melanesia. Other essays cover contemporary property issues in Northern Cyprus, Romania, Britain and Japan. - from Amzon

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