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Crosscurrents: Law and Society in a Native Title Claim to Land and Sea

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It’s one thing to grasp what the law says: It’s any other to take a look at to keep in mind what it means and how It’s applied. When Indigenous relationships with a country are viewed in the course of the lens of a Western property rights regime, this complexity is seriously magnified. Crosscurrents traces the path of a native title claim within the Kimberley region of Western Australia (Sampi v. State of Western Australia) from its inception to resolution, contextualizing the claim within the internet of historical events that shaped the claim’s beginnings, its intersection with evolving case law, and the labyrinth of legal process, evidence and argument that in the long run shaped its end. Katie Glaskin examines native title law by tracing the development of a single claim, and, in doing so, makes this complex area of law more accessible to non-specialist readers. Also discussed is the interaction of Indigenous and Western systems of knowledge and governance. Policy-makers, native title lawyers, land councils, environmental groups, native title advocacy groups, anthropologists, historians, and scholars within the field will find this book of great interest. The creator has worked as an anthropologist on native title claims since 1994, and has published widely within the area of native title. In 2015, she won the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland’s prestigious Curl essay prize. [Subject: Australian Studies, Indigenous Studies, Anthropology, Social Science, History, Legal History, Law]

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