Includes bibliographical references and index.

Property systems after armed conflicts : custom, possession and disp ossession -- the ethnography of Austronesian origin principles -- The s tructure of resilience : rule complexity and customary land systems -- Contested transitions from custom to law : property rights in a weak st ate -- Solving the problem of violence : land law in a new nation-state -- Controlling the domain, sharing the land : customary land tenures i n a Naueti community -- The unsettling histories of Ponta Leste -- Land , history and politics in Maliana Sub-district -- Possession, custom an d conflict around the town of Ainaro -- Possession and dispossession : mediating and managing complex land conflicts -- Implementing the land law : Possession, protection and community property.