No Ordinary Judgement: Mabo, the Murray Islanders' Land Case - Softcover

Sharp, Nonie

 
9780855752873: No Ordinary Judgement: Mabo, the Murray Islanders' Land Case
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0855752874 ISBN 13: 9780855752873
Verlag: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This is the inside story of the Mabo case, a unique court drama where rights and interests previously unknown to Anglo-Australian law came to be recognised by the High Court of Australia. In far north-east Australia lie the homelands of the Meriam, a dynamic seafaring, fishing and gardening people. They explained in court, often eloquently, how their 'cultural way' retains a fidelity to distinctive principles while also accommodating new ideas and techniques. In the name of Meriam law they also defended their right to land passed between generations by the spoken word. Their right to land carries with it a moral and practical responsibility to other Meriam and to the land itself. Meriam culture, often diminished in the hearing of evidence, has an original contribution to make to future Meriam, to the rest of Australia and to the world. In exploring the role of native title in the reshaping of Australian identity, some of the deeper questions of cultural diversity and self-determination are identified.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anthropologist Nonie Sharp is an honorary research fellow in the Anthropology Program of the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University. For many years she has worked with northern Australia's coastal indigenous people and is an authority on communities of the Torres Strait Islands. After obtaining her PhD from La Trobe University in 1995, Nonie went on to teach sociology and anthropology. Additionally, a five-year Australian Research Fellowship enabled her to travel to the Pacific islands, parts of coastal Europe, Canada and the United States, and write a book about people and their relationship to the sea. The book is titled Saltwater people: the waves of memory.

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Verlag
Aboriginal Studies Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0855752874
ISBN 13 
9780855752873
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
322
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