C. M. Hann

Property Relations

Herausgeber: Hann, C. M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ten diverse ethnographic case studies renew the anthropological perspective on property.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780521593892
• ISBN-10: 0521593891
• Artikelnr.: 31804861

Inhaltsangabe

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.