Native Title in Australia: An Ethnographic Perspective

by Peter Sutton

Book Overview

Peter Sutton highlights fundamental anthropological issues concerned with customary rights, kinship, identity and spirituality that are highly relevant to land claim cases. Native land claims continue to be one of the most controversial political, legal and moral issues in contemporary 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521812585
• ISBN13: 9780521812580
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"