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Custom, codification, collaboration: Integrating the legacies of land and forest authorities in Oecusse Enclave, East Timor.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Custom, codification, collaboration: Integrating the legacies of land and forest authorities in Oecusse Enclave, East Timor.
Author:	Yoder, Laura Suzanne Meitzner.
Description:	370 p.
Notes:	Director: Michael Roger Dove.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 1062.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-03A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3169027
ISBN:	9780542050312

Custom, codification, collaboration: Integrating the legacies of land and forest authorities in Oecusse Enclave, East Timor.
Yoder, Laura Suzanne Meitzner.

Custom, codification, collaboration: Integrating the legacies of land and forest authorities in Oecusse Enclave, East Timor. - 370 p.

Director: Michael Roger Dove.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

After centuries of mercantilism, Portuguese colonialism, Indonesian rule, and United Nations administration, the newly independent nation of East Timor bears the environmental and political effects of a long history of forest product extraction. Oral narratives and written accounts illustrate periodic forest abundance and decline in response to trade, customary regulation, state intervention, and changing agricultural practices. Political histories parallel popular environmental histories, particularly regarding the changing position of customary authorities and the decline or resurgence in accompanying practice of forest prohibitions. To counteract the forest losses that occurred when customary authorities lost power under recent administrations, the new government has supported collaborative initiatives to reinstate these figures and to revive the forest protection ceremonies, leading to new roles for customary authorities. Tracing the changing place of embodied local state and customary authorities in rural land and forest oversight is central to understanding the causes of change in forests and landscapes.

ISBN: 9780542050312Subjects--Topical Terms:

212460
Anthropology, Cultural.

Custom, codification, collaboration: Integrating the legacies of land and forest authorities in Oecusse Enclave, East Timor.
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