When Things Become Property
：Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia
( Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy )
Publication subTitle ：Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia
Publication series ： Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
Author： Sikor Thomas;Dorondel Stefan;Stahl Johannes
Publisher： Berghahn Books
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9781785334528
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781785334511
Subject： C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology;D90 theory of law (jurisprudence);D91 Legal departments
Keyword： 文化人类学、社会人类学,法学各部门,法的理论（法学）
Language： ENG
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Description
Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property interrogates the mixed outcomes of conferring ownership by examining postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, and finds that property reforms are no longer, if they ever were, miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.
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