Politics, Property and Law in the Philippine Uplands.

The Ibaloi village of Kabayan Poblacion combines a subsistence agricultural economy with a market economy that has grown up as a result of subsequent waves of colonization. The Spanish arrived in the sixteenth century, following the trail of gold and slave-bearing Chinese trade junks, and were follo...

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Main Author: Wiber, Melanie G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; ONE: Setting the Stage; TWO: "Primitive" Property Systems: Theoretical Issues; THREE: From Gold to the Cross: Historical Transformations, 1591-1930; FOUR: The Ethnographic Quartet; FIVE: Property Dispute: A Study of Consequences in Legal Pluralism; SIX: Modern Property Relations; SEVEN: Getting Things Straight: Demystifying Property Relations; EIGHT: Conclusions; Glossary; References; Index.