Lavigne Delville Philippe. (2018). Land rights. In :
Callan H. (ed.). The international encyclopedia of anthropology. Hoboken : Wiley, 3 p. ISBN 978-0-470-65722-5.
Titre du document
Land rights
Année de publication
2018
Type de document
Partie d'ouvrage
Auteurs
Lavigne Delville Philippe
In
Callan H. (ed.), The international encyclopedia of anthropology
Source
Hoboken : Wiley, 2018,
3 p. ISBN 978-0-470-65722-5
Land rights define socially recognized modes of access to land and natural resources within a given society. They are made up of bundles of elementary rights that differ according to the resources concerned. Shaped by the historical interplay of power, wealth, and identity, they combine variable and dynamic configurations of individual prerogatives and collective regulations. Land rights, the principles of justice that legitimize them, and the authorities responsible for their regulation are changing in response to state power, public policies, and market dynamics. In the many contexts that are characterized by a plurality of norms, and where access to land and resources depends on social status, (neo)customary regulations compete with state norms and administrative frameworks, and partially merge with them, reflecting the tensions, conflicts, and negotiations in each society and local modes of state control.
