University Press of America
Pages: 204
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-0456-7 • Hardback • December 1996 • $107.00 • (£82.00)
David Lea is Lecturer of Politics and Administration at the University of Papua New Guinea.
Chapter 1 Contents: Melanesian and Western Culture and Their Corresponding Systems of Land Tenure
Chapter 2 The Bougainville Crisis and the Hermeneutics of Distributive Justice
Chapter 3 Legal Realities of Papua New Guinean and Fijian Communal Tenure
Chapter 4 The "Legitimacy" of Different Customary "Ownership" Claims
Chapter 5 Christianity and Western Attitudes Towards Property
Chapter 6 John Locke and the Issues of Community Ownership
Chapter 7 The German Enlightenment, Individual Freedom and the Issue of Community
Chapter 8 Individual Acquisition and its Moral Justification
Chapter 9 Environmental Ethics and the Issue of Individual versus Community Control of Holdings
Chapter 10 Index