Property Relations: Renewing the Anthropological Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780521596367 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str.

C. M. Hann

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.