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This Title Offers A Critical, Comparative Ethnographic, Examination Of Land Restitution Programs. Drawing On Memories And Histories Of Past Dispossession, Governments, Ngos, Informal Movements And Individual Claimants Worldwide Have Attempted To Restore And Reclaim Rights In Land. Restoring What Was Ours: An Introduction / Derick Fay And Deborah James -- Property, Subjection And Protected Areas: The 'restitution' Of Dwesa-cwebe Nature Reserve, South Africa / Derick Fay -- They Should Be Killed: Forest Restitution, Ethnic Groups, And Patronage In Post-socialist Romania / Stefan Dorondel -- The Lie Of The Land: Identity Politics And The Canadian Land Claims Process In Labrador / Evie Plaice -- The Antithesis Of Restitution?: A Note On The Dynamics Of Land Negotiations In The Yukon, Canada / Paul Nadasdy -- Enacting Sovereignty In A Colonized Space: The Yolngu Of Blue Mud Bay Meet The Native Title Process / Frances Morphy -- Ethnoracial Land Restitution: Finding Indians And Fugitive Slave Descendants In The Brazilian Northeast / Jan Hoffman French -- The Will-to-community: Between Loss And Reclamation In Cape Town / Christiaan Beyers -- Through The Prism: Local Reworking Of Land Restitution Settlements In South Africa / Yves Van Leynseele And Paul Hebinck -- ¡dueños De Todo Y De Nada! (owners Of All And Nothing): Restitution Of Indian Territories In The Central Andes Of Peru / Monique Nuijten And David Lorenzo -- Que Sucede Con Procede?: The End Of Land Restitution In Rural Mexico / Kristina Tiedje -- 'we'll Never Give In To The Indians': Opposition To Restitution In New York State / Brian Blancke. Edited By Derick Fay And Deborah James. Chiefly Papers From A Double Panel Discussion Held At The American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting In 2005. A Glasshouse Book. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.