When Things Become Property FICTION / Thrillers / Technological

When Things Become Property FICTION / Thrillers / TechnologicalGovernments 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

cultural differences

This vivid ethnography of Bolivian students explores the challenges they confront as they try to maintain their indigenous identity

essential for scholars of this period and travellers to modern China

well-validated

Since the early years of the Song dynasty (960–1279)

Recognizing that philosophy

understood here as the period roughly stretching from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century

There is a risk of transfer of diseases and zoonoses to humans and livestock

and family records

Chief Diplomat

class and identity over the past 50 years

in comparative form