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Author Gumbert, Marc, 1942-

Title Neither justice nor reason : a legal and anthropological analysis of Aboriginal land rights / Marc Gumbert
Published St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1984

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Description xv, 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary 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)
Analysis Australia Land tenure Rights of aborigines
Australian Aborigines. Cultural processes. Related to land rights. Anthropological perspectives
Australian Aborigines. Land rights. Legal aspects
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [200]-206
Event 1984
Notes Copy 3 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians.
Anthropology -- Australia.
Ethnology -- Australia -- History.
Ethnology -- Australia.
Native title (Australia)
LC no. 84003598
ISBN 0702217468
0702217476