Native Title in Australia Hardback: An Ethnographic Perspective - Hardcover

Sutton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521812585 ISBN 13: 9780521812580

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Review of the hardback: '... it is good to have this comprehensive oeuvre. Anthropologists engaged in native title work will find it indispensable.' Anthropos

Biografía del 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.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521812585
• ISBN 13: 9780521812580
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304