Anthropology

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Contributors to this volume take issue with the ‘idealist’ approach in which land and landscape – place and space – are read as purely expressive and ultimately poetic. They argue that too much emphasis on the subjective construction of land obscures the fundamentally meaningful sense in which land is also used and appropriated: while land may have some subjective, ideological meaning, it exists, also, as a practical resource. The essays focus on postcolonial legacies in land law, contemporary disputes and land claims surrounding ancestral lands, conservation issues and road protests. Areas covered include Western and Eastern Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean, Australia and the Pacific, India and Indonesia.

About The Author

Allen Abramson is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at University College London. He has also taught in the Universities of the South Pacific (Fiji), Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a lecturer in the Anthropology Department at University of Wales Lampeter.

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