Abandoned Property
Aboriginal Coast Salish
Aboriginal Title
British Caribbean Territory
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Coast Salish
Coast Salish People
Cognatic Descent
Cultural Contract
cultural landscape analysis
Cultural Re-creation
Durga Puja
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ethnic conflict studies
ethnicity land conflict research
Free Villages
global movement
global power blocs
indigenous land rights
JNF
land
Leeward Maroons
Lot's Wife
Mswati III
non-Hispanic Caribbean
postcolonial territoriality
Provincial Crown Lands
Rastafarian Movement
resource-based disputes
spatial identity politics
strategic spaces
Swazi Nation Land
territoriality
Traditional Cultural Properties
Traditional Swazi
West Central Area
Young Men
Zionist Christian Church
Zionist Churches
Product details
- ISBN 9781859735640
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 disputes relating to nationalism have resulted in the loss of human life in some regions, in others ties between ethnicity and land are asserted more peacefully. Nationalism and challenges to the validity of the links between people and places have caused widespread bloodshed in the disputed territory of Palestine, involving competing claims of Arabs and Jews, have led to war. In North America, however, indigenous Indians' claims to land are settled in the courts, rather than through violence. This book shows how human behaviour is affected by the multiple ways in which people identify with land, topography and natural resources. In doing so, it highlights the growing trend towards defining physical space in specific ethnic contexts, associated with a contemporary world that facilitates global movement.
Michael Saltman Professor of Anthropology,University of Haifa
