Land Tenure in the Cook Islands

Contents

• • [covers]
  • [title page]
  • Land Tenure in the Cook Islands
  • [quotation]
  • Declaration
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary and Conventions
  • Chapter 1 — Introduction
• • Part One — The Pre-Contact Land Tenure System of Rarotonga
    • Chapter 2 — Historical Background - c. 875 to 1823 A.D.
      • [section]
      • Early settlement
      • Takitumu: the tribe of Tangiia
      • Karika's tribe: Te Au o Tonga or Avarua
      • Arorangi: the tribe that broke away
      • Relations between the tribes
    • Chapter 3 — Social Organization
      • [section]
      • The tribe (vaka)
      • The major lineage (ngati)
      • The minor lineage (ngati)
      • The extended family (uanga)
      • The nuclear family (puna) and the young unmarrieds (mapu)
      • The commoner (unga or tangata rikiriki)
      • Demographic composition
      • Specialists
      • Marriage
      • Transmission of titles
    • Chapter 4 — The Distribution of Rights to Land
      • [section]
      • The role of the titleholder
      • Rights of the tribe
      • Rights of the lineage
      • Rights of the extended family
      • Rights of the individual
    • Chapter 5 — The Acquisition and Loss of Rights to Land
      • [section]
      • By discovery and settlement
      • By conquest
      • By allocation and occupation within the landholding group
      • By inheritance
      • By reversion
      • By marriage
      • By gift and permissive occupation
      • By adoption
      • The pattern of acquisition
      • The loss of rights to land
    • Chapter 6 — The Utilization and Role of Land in Rarotonga
      • The economic exploitation of land
      • The role of land in social relations
      • The state of land rights in 1823
  • Part Two — The Impact of European Culture on Land Tenure, 1823–98
    • Chapter 7 — Changes in the Distribution of Land and Land Rights
      • New patterns of settlement
      • The effects of social and demographic upheaval
      • Foreign settlement
    • Chapter 8 — The Form and Function of Introduced Laws
      • The mission role
      • The functioning of the laws
      • Protection and federation: 1888–98
    • Chapter 9 — The New Role of Land
      • The production of surpluses
      • Changes in production patterns
      • The leasing and lending of land
      • The status of women
    • Chapter 10 — The Establishment of the Land Court
      • A shift in the balance of power
      • Annexation and the creation of a Land Court
      • The Court established
      • Foreign settlement
      • The act of 1915: preservation of custom
      • Appeals and rehearings
    • Chapter 11 — The Land Court in Action
      • Determining ownership
      • Title to village lands
      • The progress of Court investigations
    • Chapter 12 — Court Practice and Native Custom
      • [section]
      • Rights of women (and through women)
      • The rights of absentees (contingent and secondary rightholders)
      • The effects of erroneous Court interpretations
    • Chapter 13 — Tenure Reform and Productivity
      • Early experiments in increasing productivity
      • Productivity changes since annexation
      • The causes of productivity decline
    • Chapter 14 — Recent Developments
      • [section]
      • The Occupation Rights scheme
      • Later experiments
      • New patterns of work organization
    • Chapter 15 — Future Possibilities
      • The demographic context
      • Advantages of the existing system
      • Future possibilities: the range of feasibility
      • Fragmentation of title
      • Facilitating transfer
      • The constitution and functions of the Court
      • Incorporation: a possible tenure innovation
  • Appendices
    • Appendix A — Schedule of Laws and Other Provisions Relating to Land in the Cook Islands
      • [section]
      • A. Mission Period 1823–88
      • B. Protectorate Period 1888–1900
      • C. Dependency Period 1901 – Present
    • Appendix B — The Ngati Te Ora Case
      • An illustration of the effects of Court practice
      • Genealogy of Ngati Te Ora: explanatory note
    • Appendix C — Price Index for the Cook Islands 1891–1959
    • Bibliography
      • [section]
      • Part One: Theory and Comparative Studies
      • Part Two: The Cook Islands

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Title: Land Tenure in the Cook Islands

Author: R. G. Crocombe

Part of: Tidal Pools: Digitized Texts from Oceania for Samoan and Pacific Studies

Key subjects of this text: Cook Islands

Keywords: Contemporary Māori and Pacific Islands

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