Property Relations by C M Hann

Property Relations by C M Hann

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Anthropology 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.

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Property Relations by C M Hann

The anthropological tradition approaches property as a 'bundle of rights' and property relationships as social relationships. Rejecting both liberal and socialist approaches, which often neglect the wider social and cultural contexts of property, the contributors to this volume renew and extend the anthropological perspective. The ethnographic case studies include accounts of sharing and intelligence gathering among hunter-gatherers and herders in Africa and in Siberia, land appropriation from native Americans, and the problems associated with the disposal of property in Melanesia. However the anthropological perspective can also illuminate capitalist property relations, and there are fascinating essays on property redistribution in Cyprus and Romania, and on the history of property rights in England and Japan.

C. M. Hann is Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, which specialises in studies of postsocialist countries. His book Socialism was published by Routledge in 1992.

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ISBN 13 9780521593892
ISBN 10 0521593891
Titre Property Relations
Auteur C M Hann
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Éditeur Cambridge University Press
Année de publication 1998-03-28
Nombre de pages 288
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