The Social Effects of Native Title
Recognition, Translation, Coexistence
Table of Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- 1. The social effects of native title
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- Recognition
- Translation
- Coexistence
- Conclusion
- References
- 2. Performing law
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- Introduction
- A brief ethnography of the court: performance and enactment
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- The arena
- Who gets to speak, and how
- The witness statement—neither fish nor fowl?
- The Yolngu response
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- The insertion of performance: sacred power made manifest
- The advantages of giving ‘non-evidence’
- Ancestral forces insert their own performance
- The insistence on difference
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 3. Claim, culture and effect
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- Law and culture
- A historical view
- Objectifying culture in the context of native title
- ‘Tradition’, property relations, and the constitution
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 4. Effects of native title recognition in the northern
Kimberley
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- Some initial effects of the judgement on local lives
- The Indigenous Land Corporation as a new pastoral boss
- The effects of the court process itself
- Conclusion
- References
- 5. ‘We’re tired from talking’
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- Kaanju Ngaachi: Kaanju Pama
- Kaanju governance
- Chuulangun Aboriginal Corporation
- Background to the claim
- The native title process
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- Native title and State land dealings
- Conclusion
- References
- 6. Towards an uncertain community?
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- Introduction
- The limits of recognition
- Fundamental coexistence
- Beyond formalism, towards community?
- Conclusion
- References
- 7. Native title and the Torres Strait
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Neitiv (‘native’) and porena (‘foreigner’)
- The Torres Strait Islander Land Act and the Gau Clan
- Native title
- Warraberalgal
- Reflections
- References
- 8. ‘No vacancies at the Starlight Motel’
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- Native title and the colonial process
- Modern Larrakiya identity and native title
- Larrakiya and the ‘long grassers’
- The Larrakia claim over Darwin
- Larrakiya identity co-opted
- Conclusion: an uncertain identity
- References
- 9. Native title and the urban Koori traditional
custodian
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- Background to the New South Wales Land Rights Act
- Historical background
- What constitutes an Aboriginal land council?
- The Sydney experience
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 10. Beyond native title
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- Introduction
- MLDRIN: a brief introduction
- Traditional ownership, native title and establishing MLDRIN
- A confederation of Nations
- Election processes and the diversity of political
identities
- Incorporation, governance, and certainty
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 11. The limits of recognition
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- The recognition of recognition
- Justice from recognition
- The limits of recognition
- Recognising change
- Dealing with change over time
- Taking change seriously
- Conclusion
- References
- 12. History, oral history, and memoriation in native title
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- History vs anthropology
- History, narrative, ethnohistory
- References