David R. Lea

Melanesian Land Tenure in a Contemporary and Philosophical Context

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comparative philosophical analysis of Melanesian communal land tenure and the 'Western' paradigm of private ownership. Inherent ideological tensions between Western development and communal ownership are highlighted while also drawing attention to conflict between principles of private ownership and environmental ethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780761804567
• ISBN-10: 0761804560
• Artikelnr.: 30981854

Autorenporträt

David Lea is Lecturer of Politics and Administration at the University of Papua New Guinea.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Contents: Melanesian and Western Culture and Their Corresponding
Systems of Land Tenure Chapter 2 The Bougainville Crisis and the
Hermeneutics of Distributive Justice Chapter 3 Legal Realities of Papua New
Guinean and Fijian Communal Tenure Chapter 4 The "Legitimacy" of Different
Customary "Ownership" Claims Chapter 5 Christianity and Western Attitudes
Towards Property Chapter 6 John Locke and the Issues of Community Ownership
Chapter 7 The German Enlightenment, Individual Freedom and the Issue of
Community Chapter 8 Individual Acquisition and its Moral Justification
Chapter 9 Environmental Ethics and the Issue of Individual versus Community
Control of Holdings Chapter 10 Index