Native Title in Australia - An Ethnographic Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Professor Peter Sutton is an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum! and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology! University College London. He is an anthropologist and linguist. He has lived and worked with Aboriginal people in remote areas of Cape York Peninsula and the Northern Territory! but also in urban and rural centres! since 1969. Professor Sutton has assisted with over fifty indigenous land claim cases in many different parts of Australia since 1979. He is an author or editor of eleven books and has published over a hundred academic and other papers! mainly in the fields of Aboriginal land tenure! languages and art! and indigenous policy. Klappentext Discusses fundamental anthropological issues with Aboriginal Australians! focusing on kinds of customary rights that are 'held' in Aboriginal 'countries'. Zusammenfassung In this book! Peter Sutton offers a critical discussion of anthropological findings in Australia in the field of Aboriginal traditional interests in land and waters! focusing on the customary rights being 'held' in Aboriginal 'countries'. He explores key aspects of Aboriginal society that are relevant to lawyers and others working on title claims. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Sutton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2003
• EAN: 9780521812580
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81258-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Australia, LAW / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Systems of law, Archaeology by period / region, LAW / Indigenous Law & Legal Systems, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity, Relating to First Nations peoples in Australia