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List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: the embeddedness of property C. M. Hann 2. 'Sharing is not a form of exchange': an analysis of property-sharing in immediate-return hunter-gatherer societies James Woodburn 3. Property as a way of knowing on Evenki lands in Arctic Siberia David G. Anderson 4. Property and social relations in Melanesian anthropology James G. Carrier 5. The mystery of property: inheritance and industrialization in England and Japan Alan MacFarlane 6. An unsettled frontier: property, blood and US federal policy Paula L. Wagoner 7. Property values: ownership, legitimacy and land markets in Northern Cyprus Julie Scott 8. Property and power in Transylvania's decollectivization Katherine Verdery 9. Property rights, regulation and environmental protection: some Anglo-Romanian contrasts William Howarth 10. Dowry and the rights of women to property Jack Goody 11. Divisions of interest and languages of ownership Marilyn Strathern Notes Bibliography Index.
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