Neither justice nor reason : a legal and anthropological analysis of Aboriginal land rights / Marc Gumbert
- Bib ID:
- 1077898
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gumbert, Marc, 1942-
- Description:
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- St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1984
- xv, 215 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0702217476 (paperback)
- 0702217468
- Summary:
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Criticises social organisation theory in traditional anthropology and provides alternative paradigm following the premise that traditional conceptions are based on inadequate models and therefore dysfunctional in the land claim process; contact history, government policy; sources of law, land rights legislation by State; concepts of the horde, patrilines, patrimoieties, managers; history of land rights since 1970 Gove case, Aboriginal Land Rights (N.T.) Act 1976; review of six claim cases & applicability of anthropological models (Alyawarra & Kaititja land claim, Uluru (Ayers Rock) National Park & Lake Amadeus (Luritja claim, Yingawunarri (Old Top Springs) Mudbura claim, Anmatjirra & Alyawarra claim (Utopia Pastoral Lease), Lander Warlpiri Anmatjirra land claim (Willowra; Limmen Bight)
- Full contents:
- Includes index
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [200]-206.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians. Cultural processes. Related to land rights. Anthropological perspectives
- Aboriginal Australians. Land rights. Legal aspects
- Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure
- Ethnology -- Australia
- Land rights - Conservation areas
- Land rights - Excisions and leases - Pastoral leases
- Kaytetye / Kaytej people (C13) (NT SF53-06)
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Moieties
- Government policy - State and territory - Tasmania
- Luritja / Loritja people (C7.1) (NT SG52-04)
- Anmatyerre / Anmatyerr people (C8.1) (NT SF53-09)
- Settlement and contacts
- Government policy - State and territory - South Australia
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Land rights - Excisions and leases - Land grants and leases to Aborigines
- Government policy - State and territory - Western Australia
- Law - Land - State and Territory - Northern Territory
- Mudburra people (C25) (NT SE53-05)
- Government policy - State and territory - New South Wales
- Pitjantjatjara people (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Government policy - State and territory - Victoria
- Alyawarr / Alyawarre people (C14) (NT SF53-07)
- Lander Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF53-05)
- Mara / Marra people (N112) (NT SD53-11)
- Colonisation
- Land rights - Claims, disputes, hearings
- Law - Land - Commonwealth
- Government policy - State and territory - Queensland
- Law - Jurisprudence
- Warndarrang / Warndarang people (N120) (NT SD53-11)
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Patrilineal systems
- Utopia (South Central NT SF53-10)
- Nhulunbuy / Gove (East Arnhem Land NT SD53-04)
- Uluru / Ayers Rock (South Central NT SG52-08)
- Limmen Bight (North NT SD53-15)
- Victoria (Vic)
- Wirliatjarra / Willowra (Central NT Tanami Desert SF53-05)
- Yingawunarri / Top Springs (North NT SE52-04)
- Lake Amadeus (South Central NT SG52-04)
- Nhulunbuy / Gove (East Arnhem Land NTSD53-04)
- Top Springs / Yingawunarri (North NT SE52-04)
- New South Wales (NSW)
- South Australia (SA)
- Western Australia (WA)
- Queensland (Qld)
- Tasmania (Tas)
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- Publication date:
- 1984
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