Native Title in Australia
An Ethnographic Perspective
- Author: Peter Sutton, University of Adelaide
- Date Published: October 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521812580
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Australian law recognised the existence of native title in the Mabo decision of 1992. Since then, many indigenous people have worked with anthropologists and other scholars in recording and presenting the factual bases of their native title claims. Anthropologists, too, have acted as consultants to non-claimant parties. In this context, legal and bureaucratic advisers often encounter the complexities of indigenous land and marine tenure for the first time, or at least in a new way. In this book Peter Sutton sets out the fundamental anthropological issues involved in native title in Australia, focusing on the kinds of rights that are held in traditional 'countries', the types of groups whose members have been found to enjoy those rights, and how such groups have changed over 200 years of post-colonial history.
Read more- The first comprehensive account of Aboriginal land tenure systems using a historical perspective Introduces the non-specialist reader to a complex field in clear language Offers anthropological and legal specialists critical analyses of the topics at the heart of proof and recognition of native title.
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Review of the hardback: '… it is good to have this comprehensive oeuvre. Anthropologists engaged in native title work will find it indispensable.' Anthropos
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- Date Published: October 2003
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521812580
- length: 304 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.62kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Map
1. Kinds of rights in country
2. Local organisation before the land claims era
3. Aboriginal country groups
4. Atomism versus collectivism
5. Underlying and proximate customary titles
6. The system question
7. Kinship, filiation and Aboriginal land tenure
8. Families of polity
Notes
References
Index.
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