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Author Rose, Deborah Bird, 1946-

Title Indigenous customary law and the courts : post-modern ethics and legal pluralism / Deborah Bird Rose
Published Darwin : A.N.U., North Australia Research Unit, 1996

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Description 30 pages ; 25 cm
Series Discussion paper / North Australia Research Unit ; no. 2/1996
Discussion paper (Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit) ; no. 2/1996
Contents [Introduction] of North Australia Research Unit. The Australian National University -- Guidelines for contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Indigenous Customary Law and the Courts: post-modern ethics and legal pluralism / Deborah Bird Rose -- Pluralisms -- Trouble, reciprocity, and the human body -- The process of law -- Authority and disorder -- The courts: some conclusions
Summary Examines key concepts and the process of Aboriginal customary law - trouble, payback, the human body; discusses situations where Indigenous people turn to the Anglo-Australian legal system
Analysis Australian Aboriginal studies
Courts & legal procedures
Law (Australia)
Notes ANALYTIC
Bibliography Includes bibliography
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Courts -- Australia.
Cultural pluralism -- Australia.
Customary law courts -- Australia.
Customary law -- Australia.
Ethics, Modern.
Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia.
Law, Aboriginal Australian.
Postmodernism -- Australia.
Author Rose, Deborah Bird, 1946-
Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit.
LC no. 96346586
ISBN 0731524934