1st Edition

Land and Territoriality

Edited By Michael Saltman Copyright 2002
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

In the past, territorial conflict usually involved major powers seeking hegemony over strategic spaces and resources. More recently, however, the decline of opposing global power blocs has elevated ethnicity to a prime cause of conflict over land. This book considers the multiple roles ethnicity plays in fostering territorial conflicts, both violent and non-violent, across the globe. While land... Read more

1 Introduction 2 Culture and Politics in the Aboriginal Landscape: Reflections on the Identification of Culturally Significant Places in Western North America 3 The Time When the Majority in the Israeli ‘Cabinet’ Decided ‘Not to Block the Possibility of the Return of the Arab Refugees’, and How and Why this Policy was Defeated 4 All That Fuss Over 100 Houses: Identities and Moralities of Building on Land 5 Out of Place: Symbolic Domains, Religious Rights and The Cultural Contract 6 Ritual Distances, Territorial Divisions: Land, Power and Identity in Central Nepal 7 Imitating Ethnicity: Land, Territoriality and Identity in a Swazi Christian Church 8 From Cattle Herding to Cultivation – From Territoriality to Land 9 Land Territory and Identity in the Deterritorialized, Transnational Caribbean

Biography

Michael Saltman Professor of Anthropology,University of Haifa