This book analyses administrative struggle and resistance, from the late 1960s through to the present day, in land purchases for Aboriginal communities. It is based on information and material which has never been available for public scrutiny before.
Political, legal and bureaucratic problems of implementation of land purchases from 1960s to present day; contradictions of land rights demands in Capitalist Australia; major phases of Aborigianal Land Fund Commission s life; Department of Aboriginal Affairs relations with A.L.F…
This book examines the ways by which the city-state of Athens and its various associations, administrative and religious managed their landed assets. It investigates the connections between income and sacred property and it analyses notions of sacred and public ownership in anti…
"This interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between culture, language and cognition based on the aspects of social structure, space and possession in Tonga, Polynesia. Grounded on extensive field research, Völkel explores the subject from an anthropological as we…
"This book examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering new insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. It is based on a close reading of the texts of several hundred charters, brieves…
This ambitious book examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering new insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. It is based on a close reading of the texts of several thousand charter…
