| Description |
xxiii, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: The ̀Second Trial' and the Impact of Yorta Yorta -- ch. Seven Legal Submissions and Crosscurrents -- One Society... or Two? -- The Applicants' Case -- The State's Submissions -- The Commonwealth's Submissions -- ch. Eight How Judgments Are Made -- From Evidence to Reasons for Judgment -- The Islands -- Juljinabur (Brue Reef) -- Jayirri (Jackson Island) -- Julum (Middle Island) -- Reasons, Evidence and the Archive -- ch. Nine Society and Sea on Appeal -- Technically Land or Technically Water -- One Society or Two? -- Errors of Law, Matters of Fact -- A ̀Bardi Jawi' Society -- What's in a Name? -- ch. Ten Recognition's Paradox -- Law, Society, Sea -- Bardi Jawi -- Moments in Time |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. One Law's Metaphysics -- An Ethnography of Law -- Law's Metaphysics -- Native Title, Continuity and Society -- ch. Two When Whiteman Came In -- Country -- The First Explorers -- Pearling Days -- Settlement -- ch. Three Mission Days -- Sunday Island Mission in the Hadley Era (1899--1923) -- Lombadina and ̀Correct Mission Method' -- UAM at Sunday Island (1923--62) -- Cosmology and Aboriginal Tradition -- ch. Four A Land and Sea Claim -- Claiming Country -- Making a Claim -- Land Rights and Land Alienation -- A Genealogy of a Claim -- The Road to Litigation -- ch. Five The Ethnographic Archive -- Law, Anthropology, Experts -- The Ethnographic Archive -- Jawi Country, Bardi Country -- Anthropological Contentions -- Jawi and the ̀Piggyback' Premise -- Words, Facts, Fieldnotes -- ch. Six In the Court -- Evidence -- The Trial Begins -- Contentions and Their Effects -- On Country Evidence -- Gender-restricted Evidence -- Island and Sea Evidence -- |
| Summary |
It is one thing to know what the law says: it is another to try to understand waht it means and how it is applied. In native title, when Indigenous relationships with country are viewed through the lens of a Western property rights regime, this complexity is seriously magnified |
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Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-271) and index |
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Australia. Federal Court. Sampi on behalf of the Bardi and Jawi People v Western Australia
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Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Bardi (Australian people)
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Jawi (Australian people)
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Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
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Native title (Australia)
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Native title (Australia) -- Government policy -- Australia.
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Native title (Australia) -- Government policy.
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Native title (Australia) -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Native title (Australia) -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Native title (Australia) -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley Region
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| LC no. |
2016288614 |
| ISBN |
9781742589442 |
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