2003/10/15 by Peter Sutton · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Anthropology #Archaeology #Art #Collectivism #Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation #Ethnography #Ethnology #Gender studies #Genealogy #Geography #High Court #History #Identity (music) #Index (typography) #Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights #Individualism #Kinship #Land tenure #Law #Perspective (graphical) #Philosophy #Political science #Politics #Polity #Social science #Sociology #Spirituality
paper · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511481635
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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.