Abstract: Native title rights are rights recognised by Australian law, not customary law rights per se. They are attempts to recognise customary rights by translating them into legal terms. Native title is in this sense a ‘recognition space’. The terms of this recognition are those of the Native Title Act of 1993. Native title rights are products of a process in which evidence about indigenous cultural understandings and practices comes under legal scrutiny and is tested, usually by non-indigenous professionals. It is common for that body of information to be presented in the form of written and oral anthropological evidence, or anthropological evidence combined with that obtained directly from those whose native title application is being determined.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-10-15
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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