Native title in Australia : an ethnographic perspective / / Peter Sutton [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Sutton Peter <1946->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 333.2
• Soggetto topico: Aboriginal Australians - Land tenure; Aboriginal Australians - Civil rights; Aboriginal Australians - Legal status, laws, etc; Land tenure - Law and legislation - Australia; Native title (Australia); Customary law - Australia
• Soggetto geografico: Australia Race relations; Australia Social policy; Australia Politics and government
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-273) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Native title in Australia
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784409503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II