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Author Doolittle, Amity Appell

Title Property & politics in Sabah, Malaysia : native struggles over land rights / Amity A. Doolittle
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 224 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Culture, place, and nature
Culture, place, and nature.
Contents Colliding discourses : western land laws and native customary rights in North Borneo, 1881-1928 -- Redefining native customary law in Govuton : struggles over property rights between native peoples and colonial rulers -- Resources, ideologies, and nationalism : the politics of development in postcolonial Sabah -- Land disputes in Tempulong : colonial land laws, customary practices, and the postcolonial state, 1950-1996
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Malaysia -- Sabah
Adat law -- Malaysia -- Sabah
LAW -- Customary.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Comparative.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Adat law
Land tenure -- Law and legislation
Malaysia -- Sabah
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005008068
ISBN 9780295801162
0295801166
Other Titles Property and politics in Sabah, Malaysia