First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Toon van Meijl is a Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences at the Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies of the University of Nijmegan, the Netherlands. Franz von Benda-Beckmann is Professor of Agrarian Law and Rural Development at the Agricultural University of Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Introduction, 1. Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann: 'A Functional Analysis of Property Rights, with Special Reference to Indonesia', 2. Indira Juditka Simbolon: 'Caring for Toba Land and the Environment: What about the People?', 3. Herman Slaats: 'Land Titling and Customary Rights: Comparing Land Registration Projects in Thailand and Indonesia', 4. Willem G. Wolters: 'The Development of Property Rights to Land in the Philippines, 1850-1930', 5. Hartmut Holzknecht: 'Customary Property Rights and Economic Development in Papua New Guinea', 6. Anton Ploeg: 'Land Tenure and the Commercialisation of Agriculture in Papua New Guinea', 7. Leontine E. Visser: 'The Social Exchange of Land, Cloth, and Development in Irian Jaya', 8. Ad Borsboom: 'From Terra Nullius to Mabo: Land Rights and Self-Determination in Aboriginal Australia', 9. Eric Venbrux: 'A Glimpse of the Dreamtime: Property Rights and Tourism in the Tiwi Islands, Northern Australia', 10. Toon van Meijl: 'Settling Maori Land Claims: Legal and Economic Implications of Political and Ideological Contests', About the Contributors