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Book SynopsisAnthropology traditionally treats property relationships as social relationships, emphasising that material objects carry cultural meanings. Rejecting liberal economic and Marxist views on property, the contributors to this volume renew the anthropological perspective, applying it to a range of ethnographic cases.
Table of ContentsList 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.
