Genealogy of Colonial Land Registration and State Land in Portuguese Timor

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ID3970040
AuthorsLaura S Meitzner Yoder (Wheaton College, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume25
Issue5
Pages519-534
Publication date2020-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe European Legacy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10848770.2020.1760459
OpenAlexW3023267481
LanguageEN
References cited22

Establishing territorial control was one of the primary activities of colonial presence on Timor from the late nineteenth century. In Portuguese Timor as elsewhere in Southeast Asia, the colonial state pursued codification and regulation of land in multiple forms, including serial attempts to enact land registration in tandem with colonial projects including pacification, resource extraction, and generation of state income. Seeking to extend official purview to Timor-specific customary land use and practices, Portugal defined distinct social categorizations linked to land access and ownership. This article traces the policies governing land in Portuguese Timor from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, highlighting state land acquisition, registration processes, laws and procedures asserting state control over land transactions, and international influences on Portuguese practices

Archaeology · Colonialism · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Land law · Land registration · Land tenure · Linguistics · Political science · Portuguese · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Land Rights and Reforms · Law

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