English land-law practices were too cumbersome, technical, and expensive for this class to bear. ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)
Yet the specific historical ways in which women had organized their relationship to the landtheir strategies for obtaining fields, their notions of land tenure, their land-use practices and farming cultureremained neglected subjects, despite general acknowledgement that rural women's lives would be profoundly affected by land-law reform in the postwar era of World Bank-financed reconstruction. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Meanwhile, defenders of peasants 'rights in Mozambique's land-law debate were recommending that statutory rights to bounded tracts of "ancestral" land be given to rural communitieswhose boundaries and constitution peasant advocates rarely specifiedand that local bodies much like the LC be vested with the authority to negotiate terms of land use by private interests and the state. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Failure to examine postwar land politics from local historical, cultural, and gendered perspectives has perpetuated the stereotype (much deployed in Mozambique's land-law debate) that "customary law" invariably "discriminates against women" 11 and obscures how earlier changes in land administration negatively affected many female farmers. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Clear patterns emerge from this literature, mainly involving the negative consequences that African women have experienced as a result of privatization, individualization of land tenure, land concentration, and postcolonial land-law reforms whether implemented by market-oriented or socialist states. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Then the smell of damp earth and clinging roots caught at him unexpectedly; memory upon memory sent shoots and hair roots spreading through him of land-law until for one split second he no longer felt his body, and his mind branched dizzyingly through the rootwork of Hed. ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
His thoughts were filled instantly with the living land-law of An. His heart pounded sharply against his ribs. ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
When Gbisteslwchlohm took it from me, piece by piece, I realized that the power of land-law has structure and definition, and I know to the last hair root oa a hop vine the structure of the land-law of Hed. ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
They never meddled with land-law, or hunted a harpist from one end of the realm to the other to kill him. ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
With the voice came mind-work he could not fight, pain when he fought with his fists, endless questions he would not answer out of a desperate fury, until suddenly his fury turned to terror as he felt the fragile, complex instincts for land-law begin to die in him. ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
There was no place anywhere in the realm for a man who unbound land-law and shaped wind. ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
I touched every binding of land-law in Isig, and he didn't seem to care. ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
"Can you bind the winds as well as land-law?" he asked incredulously. ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
But you found me, and I hold the land-law of Ymris. ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
"They are of the land-law of An. The power and heart of An. Nothing more." ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
"The power of land-law?" she whispered incredulously. ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
And for all my father is interested in land-law, he might as well be a wraith himself. ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
Rooted also within the Harpist in tbe Wind structure of land-law in Heureu's mind, it became his link with the King of Ymris. ❋ McKillip, Patricia A. (1979)
