Melanesian Land Tenure in a Contemporary and Philosophical Context

David Lea is Lecturer of Politics and Administration at the University of Papua New Guinea.

Chapter 1 Contents: Melanesian and Western Culture and Their Corresponding Systems of Land Tenure Chapter 2 The Bougainville Crisis and the Hermeneutics of Distributive Justice Chapter 3 Legal Realities of Papua New Guinean and Fijian Communal Tenure Chapter 4 The "Legitimacy" of Different Customary "Ownership" Claims Chapter 5 Christianity and Western Attitudes Towards Property Chapter 6 John Locke and the Issues of Community Ownership Chapter 7 The German Enlightenment, Individual Freedom and the Issue of Community Chapter 8 Individual Acquisition and its Moral Justification Chapter 9 Environmental Ethics and the Issue of Individual versus Community Control of Holdings Chapter 10 Index