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Asserting Land, Estranging Kin: On Competing Relations of Dependence in Vanuatu

Oceania, 2021-07, Vol.91 (2), p.280-295 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Asserting Land, Estranging Kin: On Competing Relations of Dependence in Vanuatu
  • Author: Bratrud, Tom
  • Subjects: Autonomy ; Autonomy (Political science) ; dependence ; Disputes ; Economic aspects ; Homelands ; Incentives ; Interpersonal relations ; Kinship ; land disputes ; Land rights ; Land tenure ; Leadership ; Leases ; Leasing ; Melanesia ; Negotiation ; Postcolonialism ; Right of access ; Social aspects ; Social networks ; Titles ; Vanuatu ; Villages
  • Is Part Of: Oceania, 2021-07, Vol.91 (2), p.280-295
  • Description: ABSTRACT This paper examines how the new material value of land in postcolonial Vanuatu intensifies people's shaping and re‐shaping of claims to autonomy and dependence. Ahamb, like many other villages in Melanesia, originated as a mission community with people moving in from various original homelands. The mix of people from different places facilitated new kinship bonds and senses of community. However, it has also sparked disputes over land rights and leadership, fuelled by the postcolonial government's incentives for converting customary land into registered titles and leases for wealthy investors. The possibility of leasing out land, and preventing others from leasing out land, creates a dynamic where groups increasingly define themselves in terms of landowner clans that exclude outsiders rather than the wider kin networks that include them. Redefinitions of social boundaries generate secondary disputes over dependence and autonomy where care of kin, Christian commitment and future aspirations sometimes prove to be incompatible and in need of negotiation.
  • Publisher: Melbourne: Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd
  • Language: English;Norwegian
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0029-8077
    EISSN: 1834-4461
    DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5305
  • Source: NORA Norwegian Open Research Archives
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