Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xiv |
List of contributors | p. xv |
List of Tables and Figures | p. xviii |
List of abbreviations | p. xix |
'Restoring what was ours': An introduction | p. 1 |
The anthropology of restitution | p. 2 |
Restitution: a temporal process | p. 6 |
Property, community, government: citizen or subject? | p. 11 |
Community and governance: 'no nation within a nation' | p. 12 |
The institutionalization of property | p. 14 |
The rights and wrongs of restitution | p. 17 |
Conclusion | p. 18 |
References | p. 19 |
Notes | p. 23 |
Property, subjection and protected areas: The 'restitution' of Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve, South Africa | p. 25 |
Abstract | p. 25 |
Grounding claims to land | p. 27 |
Bundles of duties, handfuls of rights | p. 33 |
The effectiveness of rights | p. 35 |
New forms of subjection | p. 36 |
Conclusion | p. 38 |
References | p. 39 |
Notes | p. 41 |
'They should be killed': Forest restitution, ethnic groups and patronage in post-socialist Romania | p. 43 |
Abstract | p. 43 |
Property, access and patronage in the post-socialist context | p. 44 |
Decollectivization and forest restitution | p. 46 |
Establishing new rights and duties en route to 'restitution' | p. 49 |
Rudari - a marginalized ethnic group | p. 50 |
Patronage, access and deforestation: mechanisms at work | p. 51 |
Conclusions | p. 58 |
References | p. 60 |
Notes | p. 63 |
The lie of the land: Identity politics and the Canadian land claims process in Labrador | p. 67 |
Abstract | p. 67 |
Introduction | p. 67 |
Interim | p. 68 |
Restitution | p. 74 |
The associations | p. 76 |
The Labrador Inuit Association | p. 76 |
The Innu nation | p. 78 |
The Labrador Metis Association | p. 79 |
Conclusion | p. 81 |
References | p. 83 |
Notes | p. 84 |
The antithesis of restitution? A note on the dynamics of land negotiations in the Yukon, Canada | p. 85 |
Abstract | p. 85 |
Giving land | p. 88 |
Competing conceptions of 'balance' in land selection | p. 93 |
References | p. 95 |
Notes | p. 96 |
Enacting sovereignty in a colonized space: The Yolngu of Blue Mud Bay meet the native title process | p. 99 |
Abstract | p. 99 |
Introduction | p. 99 |
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cwlth) | p. 100 |
The Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth) | p. 101 |
Colonization and encapsulation: the Yolngu view | p. 102 |
Performance and enactment: the ritual space of the court | p. 104 |
The arena | p. 105 |
Who gets to speak, and how | p. 105 |
The witness statement - neither fish nor fowl? | p. 108 |
The Yolngu response | p. 110 |
The insertion of performance: sacred power made manifest | p. 110 |
The advantages of giving 'non-evidence' | p. 111 |
Ancestral forces insert their own performance | p. 113 |
The insistence on difference | p. 114 |
Conclusion | p. 116 |
References | p. 118 |
Notes | p. 120 |
Ethnoracial land restitution: Finding Indians and fugitive slave descendants in the Brazilian Northeast | p. 123 |
Abstract | p. 123 |
Land restitution claims as spurred by the disappointment of development projects | p. 125 |
'Discovery' of indigenous and black identities | p. 127 |
Multiple meanings of land and their impact on the value of restitution | p. 129 |
Factions and ruptures in the Mocambo 'community' | p. 133 |
Being black or Indian when land is at stake | p. 136 |
Conclusion | p. 137 |
References | p. 137 |
Notes | p. 138 |
The will-to-community: Between loss and reclamation in Cape Town | p. 141 |
Abstract | p. 141 |
Introduction | p. 141 |
Background | p. 142 |
The question of community | p. 144 |
Racially differentiated citizenship | p. 147 |
The broken self | p. 149 |
Reconciling the old and the new | p. 152 |
Practical aspirations for a new District Six | p. 155 |
Apprehensions for a new District Six | p. 157 |
Conclusion | p. 159 |
References | p. 160 |
Notes | p. 162 |
Through the prism: Local reworking of land restitution settlements in South Africa | p. 163 |
Abstract | p. 163 |
Introduction | p. 163 |
Competing discourses of land restitution | p. 164 |
Cattle and the struggle for the city: Mandlazini | p. 166 |
Religion, land and politics | p. 167 |
Agri-village and settlement | p. 168 |
Reworking and fragmentation | p. 170 |
Seeking common ground, finding hidden claims: the Makhoba Community Project | p. 172 |
The resettlement narrative | p. 172 |
Enter development values | p. 175 |
Emergent properties of land restitution | p. 178 |
Conclusions | p. 180 |
References | p. 181 |
Notes | p. 183 |
Duenos de todo y de nada! (Owners of all and nothing): Restitution of Indian territories in the Central Andes of Peru | p. 185 |
Abstract | p. 185 |
Endowment versus restitution | p. 185 |
Indian highland communities: between haciendas and valley towns | p. 186 |
The law and 'the problem of the Indian' | p. 187 |
Usibamba: gaining ground and fighting for independence | p. 188 |
The Peruvian land reform: the SAIS as creature of the state | p. 190 |
Owing the state: 'gifts' and the Agrarian debt | p. 192 |
From restitution to endowment: from Indian to peasant | p. 193 |
Usibamba and the Tupac Amaru SAIS | p. 193 |
The remission of the Agrarian debt: the state's betrayal | p. 197 |
Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) and Tupac Amaru | p. 198 |
Changed relationships: comuneros and the huacchis of the SAIS | p. 201 |
Restitution of land and indigenous rights in a new political climate | p. 202 |
Conclusion: rights, recognition and restitution | p. 204 |
References | p. 205 |
Notes | p. 207 |
Que sucede con PROCEDE? (What is happening with PROCEDE?): The end of land restitution in rural Mexico | p. 209 |
Abstract | p. 209 |
Introduction | p. 209 |
Indigenous organizing and the state | p. 212 |
Background to restitution | p. 213 |
Land restitution and endowments | p. 215 |
Local memories | p. 216 |
Early twentieth-century nation-building | p. 217 |
Ejidos as material resource or site of autonomy? | p. 219 |
Indigenous campesinos | p. 221 |
Neo-liberalism and the end of land restitution | p. 224 |
The myth of the inefficient ejido | p. 224 |
Nahua ejidatarios mobilize against PROCEDE | p. 226 |
The multicultural challenge | p. 228 |
Claiming alternative modes of citizenship | p. 229 |
Conclusion | p. 229 |
References | p. 230 |
Notes | p. 232 |
'We'll never give in to the Indians': Opposition to restitution in New York State | p. 235 |
Abstract | p. 235 |
Introduction | p. 235 |
Indian land claims (in the eastern US) | p. 236 |
Public reaction to the 1979 Cayuga land claim settlement | p. 238 |
Sources of public anger | p. 242 |
Hurt and risk | p. 243 |
Core beliefs and values | p. 244 |
The blame game - there are no guilty parties | p. 244 |
Whose land is it anyway? | p. 245 |
Reservations about reservations | p. 247 |
Weakness and lies | p. 249 |
The Cayuga Work Group's response to the public opposition | p. 251 |
Conclusion | p. 253 |
References | p. 254 |
Notes | p. 256 |
Index | p. 261 |
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