Doolittle, Amity Appell.

Property & politics in Sabah, Malaysia : native struggles over land rights / Property and politics in Sabah, Malaysia Amity A. Doolittle. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005. - x, 224 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Culture, place, and nature .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-212) and index.

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.



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Land tenure--Law and legislation--Malaysia--Sabah.
Customary law--Malaysia--Sabah.

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