Land tenure in a New Ireland village
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1977
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Jessep, Owen David
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This is a study of land tenure in Lokon, a village in
the Barok linguistic district of New Ireland, Papua New
Guinea. After a general ethnographic account of village
life, kinship organisation, and settlement and residence, a
theoretical discussion of the nature of land tenure is given,
together with a summary outline of the system of land tenure
in Lokon. Attention is then directed in the main part of
the thesis to the most significant elements of Lokon land
tenure, namely the manner in which kinship groups establish
original rights to tracts of land, and the traditional means
by which land rights may be transferred between individuals
and groups. The concluding chapter indicates the extent to
which traditional aspects of land tenure persist today,
notwithstanding the changes which have resulted from the
seventy years of European administration prior to Papua New
Guinea's independence in 1975, in particular the introduction
of Christianity, and cash cropping, the making of cash payments
for land, and the work of the Land Demarcation Committee.
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10.25911/5d6e49a95f38b