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Native title in Australia : an ethnographic perspective / Peter Sutton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sutton, Peter, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Aboriginal Australians--Civil rights.
- Aboriginal Australians--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Land tenure--Law and legislation--Australia.
- Land tenure.
- Native title (Australia).
- Customary law--Australia.
- Customary law.
- Australia--Race relations.
- Australia.
- Australia--Social policy.
- Australia--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Native title has often been one of the most controversial political, legal and indeed moral issues in Australia. Ever since the High Court's Mabo decision of 1992, the attempt to understand and adapt native title to different contexts and claims has been an ongoing concern for that broad range of people involved with claims. In this book, originally published in 2003, Peter Sutton sets out fundamental anthropological issues to do with customary rights, kinship, identity, spirituality and so on that are relevant for lawyers and others working on title claims. Sutton offers a critical discussion of anthropological findings in the field of Aboriginal traditional interests in land and waters, focusing on the kinds of customary rights that are 'held' in Aboriginal 'countries', the types of groups whose members have been found to enjoy those rights, and how such groups have fared over the last 200 years of Australian history.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-273) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-14441-8
- 1-280-43761-8
- 0-511-18436-0
- 0-511-16619-2
- 0-511-16426-2
- 0-511-31296-2
- 0-511-48163-2
- 0-511-16506-4
- OCLC:
- 271786765
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