Property & politics in Sabah, Malaysia native struggles over land rights

Doolittle, Amity Appell. (Author).

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ISBN: 9780295987620
ISBN: 9780295985398
ISBN: 0295985399
ISBN: 0295801166
ISBN: 9780295801162
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 224 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Colliding discourses : western land laws and native customary rights in North Borneo, 1881-1928 -- Redefining native customary law in Govuton : struggles over property rights between native peoples and colonial rulers -- Resources, ideologies, and nationalism : the politics of development in postcolonial Sabah -- Land disputes in Tempulong : colonial land laws, customary practices, and the postcolonial state, 1950-1996.