Rights and redemption : history, law and indigenous people / authors, Ann Curthoys ; Ann Genovese ; Alex Reilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curthoys, Ann.

Contributor:

Genovese, Ann.

Reilly, Alexander.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Legal status, laws, etc.

Aboriginal Australians--Civil rights.

Law and anthropology--Australia.

Law and anthropology.

Australia--Race relations.

Australia.

Race relations.

Australia--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xvi, 278 pages; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Coogee, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press Ltd, 2008.

Summary:

"Aboriginal people have been able to use the courts to try to seek redress, particularly when political options have been limited. To do this they have had to use historical arguments, and as such history and historians have had to enter the courtroom. This highly original book brings together one of Australia's leading historians with two younger legal scholars to examine the ways in which history and the law have interacted in Australia. Far from being an abstract discussion, the book examines hundreds of federal court cases, interviewing judges, litigants, claimants and historians."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Historians in the courtroom: a history 15

2 Mabo and history 37

3 Native title: proof and historical evidence 60

4 Historians, expertise and the native title process 81

5 Judicial historiography and the question of genocide 108

6 Mourning the stolen generations: the role of redemptive history 134

7 From Kumurangk to Hindmarsh Island: law's anthropology 167

8 Contested identities and histories: Shaw v Wolf 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780868408071

0868408077

OCLC:

225580883