On understanding too quickly: Colonial postcolonial misrepresentation of indigeneous Fijian land tenure

Human Organization

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-77

  Tanner, Adrian ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collective rights; Common property; Fiji; Individual rights; Land tenure

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND RIGHTS; LAND TENURE; LANDOWNERSHIP; POST-COLONIALISM;

FIJI; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 43249137627     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.66.1.9100j416430k745k     Document Type: Article

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