Book
Native land tenure in New Guinea
Australian Medical Publishing Company • Sydney • Published In 1940 • Pages:
By: Hogbin, Herbert Ian.
Abstract
This is a descriptive and analytical study of the Wogeo land tenure system. The author demonstrates that private right to land exists on the island, and is regulated by a common code of inheritance based upon kin relationship, sanctioned by religious beliefs, and perpetuated by a deeply felt sentimental attachment to the soil. Among other topics discussed in this article are: the usage of uncultivated lands, rights to building sites, settlement pattern, community structure, dwelling types, allotment of cultivation sites, transference of land rights through marriage, alienation of cultivation rights to strangers, rights and privileges of the clan headman, and the supernatural beings who are responsible for the creation of the physical world and the innovation of cultural institutions.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2014
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Melanesia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field Date
- 1934
- Coverage Date
- 1934
- Coverage Place
- Vokeo Island, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
- Notes
- By H. Ian Hogbin
- Reprinted from OCEANIA, December 1939, Vol. 10, no. 2
- LCSH
- Vokeo Island (Papua New Guinea)