1st Edition
Institutional Bricolage, Property Rights, and Social Practices in the Colonial World
1. Institutional Pluralism, Property Rights, and Bricolage: A Conceptual Proposition
José-Miguel Lana-Berasain
2. The Carioca Experience: Landholding Practices and Institutional Bricolage of Property Rights in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Manoela Pedroza
3: The “Customary Land Market”: Conflicts and Judiciary Rulings around Monetary Land Transfers in the Transition from Colonial to Liberal Mexico (18th–19th Centuries)
Eric Léonard
4. Between European and African Norms: Land Tenure Rituals, Property Rights and Power in Early Modern Mozambique
Eugénia Rodrigues
5. Formal Law, Informal Interests: Race, Violence, and Bricolage in the Water Legislation of the East Africa Protectorate, 1895–1920
Bas Rensen
6. Asian Landowners in the Early Modern Philippines: Examining the Composición de Tierras in Pagsanjan, Laguna, 1697
Grace Liza Y. Concepcion
7. Adapting, Negotiating, and Imposing: Social and Normative Dimensions of Portuguese Land Policies in Goa (1510–1570)
Roger Lee de Jesus
Conclusion
José-Miguel Lana-Berasain
Biography
José-Miguel Lana-Berasain is Full Professor of Economic History at the Public University of Navarre in Pamplona-Iruña, Spain. His research interests include property rights, institutions for collective action, common pool resources, agricultural markets, labor and standards of living. He was Editor of the journal Historia Agraria.
