Customary Land Tenure & Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea Anthropological Perspectives

• Other Authors: Weiner, James (Editor), Glaskin, Katie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: ANU Press 2007
• Series: Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs
• Subjects: Politics & government; Indigenous peoples; Political Science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The main theme of this volume is a discussion of the ways in which legal mechanisms, such as the Land Groups Incorporation Act (1974) in PNG, and the Native Title Act (1993) in Australia, do not, as they purport, serve merely to identify and register already-existing customary indigenous landowning...