Contents 
List of contributors 
Acknowledgements 
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Introduction: the embeddedness of property 
C. M. HANN 
‘Sharing is not a form of exchange’: an analysis of property- 
sharing in immediate-return hunter-gatherer societies 
JAMES WOODBURN 
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Property as a way of knowing on Evenki lands in Arctic Siberia 
DAVID G. ANDERSON 
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Property and social relations in Melanesian anthropology 
JAMES G. CARRIER 
> The mystery of property: inheritance and industrialization 
in England and Japan 
ALAN MACFARLANE 
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An unsettled frontier: property, blood and US federal policy 
PAULA L. WAGONER 
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Property values: ownership, legitimacy and land markets in 
Northern Cyprus 
JULIE SCOTT 
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Property and power in Transylvania’s decoliectivization 
KATHERINE VERDERY 
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Property rights, regulation and environmental 
Anglo-Romanian contrasts 
WILLIAM HOWARTH 
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Dowry and the rights of women to property 
JACK GOODY 
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