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Namibia: The massacre at Hornkranz
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History Report
The now resume the serialisation of The Blue Book published in 1918 by the British government on German atrocities in Namibia. The book was destroyed in 1926 because Berlin complained that it was "a great wrong", not just against Germany but "against the white race as a whole". Chapter 5, the book describes the massacre of the Hottentots at Hornkranz on 12 August 1893. Please read on...
For the first 12 months after the annexation, the German government had I le...
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The blue book: Chapters 3 & 4
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; ... French, Spanish and Italian nations" have unanimously decided to prohibit further export of munitions to the country). (8) This news intensely annoyed Hendrik Witbooi, who remarked that he was quite unable to "praise" such a decision, and a long discussion followed ...
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Edwin Land dead at 81 Polaroid chief left image on industry
The Boston Globe
; Edwin H. Land, one of the world's preeminent inventors and the visionary founder of Polaroid Corp., died yesterday after a lengthy illness. He was 81 and lived in Cambridge. A leading figure in industry for more than 50 years, Mr. Land held 537 patents, second only to Thomas A. Edison. He was best
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3: Multiple Rights and Interests in Land
I.D.E. Occasional Papers Series
; ... succession arrangements, papers certifying the sale or gifting of land, written contracts confirming the yemayenkye arrangements, and maps showing holdings that are prepared by the government's licensed surveyors. These documents are usually prepared by governmentlicensed ...
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Shifting places, contested spaces: Land and indentity politics in the Pacific
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
; Shifting Places, Contested Spaces: Land and Identity Politics in the Pacific This paper considers the contemporary problematics surrounding the identification of persons with land which is one of the central features of Pacific societies. The movements of people and conflicts of control over land
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Discourse shopping in a dispute over land in rural Indonesia (1).
Ethnology
; ... constructed and reconstructed by people. Even maps and archives do not provide objective evidence ... the village, as is usual in such cases. Maps and measuring results were deliberately hidden from them, villagers claimed. Maps and archives are important in the arguments ...
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Land Reform: The Race Is On, THE MOSCOW TIMES
The Moscow Times (Russia)
; 00-00-0000 The new Land Code is just a small part of an unprecedented series of reforms being undertaken to eventually introduce a Western-style land market in Russia. The issues range from valuating land parcels for tax purposes to protecting the quality of farm soil. But first the government has
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Kinship matters: women's land claims in the Santal Parganas, Jharkhand/Le poids de la famille: le droit des femmes a la terre chez les Santal Parganas du Jharkhand.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; Introduction: land, kinship and identity This article discusses the processes by which kinship relations, particularly patrilineages, are being strengthened amongst the Santal community in a village, called here Chuapara, in Dumka district, Jharkhand (see Map 1). The rise of a democratic state,
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MERET SHEHENA, `BROTHERS' LAND' S. F. NADEL'S LAND TENURE ON THE ERITREAN PLATEAU REVISITED.
Africa
; ABSTRACT This article revisits S.F. Nadel's study on land tenure in highland Eritrea from the mid-1940s, and presents the current framework of the communal land tenure system of meret shehena. Under the meret shehena system, all land under the domain of the village is perceived as the common
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Women's access to land still restricted by tradition.
WIN News
; ... change them to make them equal to those of men all over the world. (See my article, Women and Property - A Right Denied, published by the Development Forum of the United Nations, Oct. 1984. Copies and program information available from WIN NEWS.)
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Indian land in seventeenth century Massachusetts
Historical Journal of Massachusetts
; Land ownership and transfer were important and routine matters within the seventeenth century Massachusetts Anglo-Indian society. From the first decades of English settlement in the Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies to the end of the seventeenth century, norms of landholding were established and
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