文档介绍：Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph 3
Customary Land Tenure
and Registration in Australia
and Papua New Guinea:
Anthropological Perspectives
Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph 3
Customary Land Tenure
and Registration in Australia
and Papua New Guinea:
Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by James F. Weiner
and Katie Glaskin
Published by ANU E Press
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
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This title is also available online at:
National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and
Papua New Guinea : anthropological perspectives.
Bibliography.
ISBN 9781921313264 (pbk.)
ISBN 9781921313271 (online)
1. Aboriginal Australians - Land tenure - Social aspects -
Australia. 2. Papuans - Land tenure - Social aspects -
Papua New Guinea. 3. Land titles - Registration and
transfer - Australia. 4. Land titles - Registration and
transfer - Papua New Guinea. 5. Land use - History -
Australia. 6. Land use - History - Papua New Guinea. I.
Weiner, James F. II. Glaskin, Katie. (Series : APEM
Monographs Series).
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Cover design by Duncan Beard.
Cover photograph: Landowner of Goare Village, Goaribari Island, Gulf Province,
Papua New Guinea (photo by James F. Weiner).
This edition © 2007 ANU E Press
Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Abbreviations xv
Contributors xvii
1. Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Papua New Guinea and
Australia: Anthropological Perspectives, James F. Weiner and
Katie Glaskin 1
2. A Legal Regime for Issuing Group Titles to Customary Land: Lessons
from the East Sepik, Jim Fingleton