Land tenure and transfer in Chimbu, Papua New Guinea: 1958?1984?A study in continuity and change, accommodation and opportunism

Autor: Harold Brookfield, Paula Brown, Robin Grau
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: Human Ecology. 18:21-49
ISSN: 1572-9915
0300-7839
DOI: 10.1007/bf00889071
Popis: A long-term study of land tenure, land transfer, and succession in one subclan of the Chimbu in the Papua New Guinea highlands takes up the relations between the agricultural cycle, family, and population growth in a period of rapid commercialization and cash cropping. Over a generation, land was held and allocated within families, among families within the subclan, and to kin and affines in neighboring groups. The land tenure, ownership, and use system allows for a very great deal of individual movement and land gifts, temporary or long-term, by land owner to kin and friends. Despite an agnatic ideology, individuals and local groups opportunistically accommodate to land needs. As cultivation becomes more intensive and semi-permanent, there appears to be a progression from fluidity of land rights in the clan or subclan to anchoring of rights and boundaries to individuals and families. It is suggested that this characterizes Chimbu land tenure; it is not a postcolonial phenomenon.
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