1. Property systems after armed conflicts : custom, possession and dispossession
2. The ethnography of Austronesian origin principles
3. The structure of resilience : rule complexity and customary land systems
4. Contested transitions from custom to law : property rights in a weak state
5. Solving the problem of violence : land law in a new nation-state
6. Controlling the domain, sharing the land : customary land tenures in a Naueti community
7. The unsettling histories of Ponta Leste
8. Land, history and politics in Maliana Sub-district
9. Possession, custom and conflict around the town of Ainaro
10. Possession and dispossession : mediating and managing complex land conflicts
11. Implementing the land law : Possession, protection and community property.