Includes bibliographical references and index.

Property in prehistory / Timothy Earle -- The anthropology of property / Bertram Turner -- Objects of property rights : old and new / Sabrina Praduroux -- The structure of property ownership and the common law/civil law divide / Michele Graziadei -- The numerous clausus of property rights / Bram Akkermans -- Transfer of property inter vivos / Lars van Vliet -- Possesion / Yaëll Emerich -- Comparative consititutional property law / André van der Walt and Rachel Walsh -- Systems of public ownership / Giorgio Resta -- Access to nature / Filippo Valguarnera -- Water rights / David B. Schorr -- Land law in the age of globalization and land grabbing / Amnon Lehavi -- China's changing property law landscape / Shitong Qiao and Frank K. Upham -- Formalizing property in Latin America / Jorge L. Esquirol -- Property and the religious sphere / Roberta Aluffi and Domenico Francavilla -- Cultural property in international law / Francesco Francioni -- The land rights of indigenous peoples under international law / Federico Lenzerini -- Indigenous territorial rights in the common law / Kent McNeil -- Community rights to forests in the tropics / Anne M. Larson, Iliana Monterroso, Mani Ram Banjade, and Esther Mwangi -- Customary tenure : remaking property for the 21st century / Liz Alden Wily.