Overview

Most Australians are familiar with the concept of land ownership and understand the meaning of native title, which recognises Indigenous peoples' rights to land to which they are spiritually or culturally connected. The ownership of areas of the sea and its resources is often overlooked however, despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander connections with the sea being just as important as those with the land. The papers in this volume demonstrate how the concept of customary marine tenure has developed in various communities and look at some of its implications. Originating in a session of papers at a conference in 1996, the papers in this volume were originally published as Oceania Monograph 48 in 1998.

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Author:   Emeritus Professor Nicolas Peterson ,  Bruce Rigsby
Publisher:   Sydney University Press
Imprint:   Sydney University Press
Edition:   First published in 1998 by Oceania Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.545kg
ISBN:  

9781743323892

ISBN 10:   1743323891
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   19 February 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Note to the 2014 edition by Peter White Preface by Nicolas Peterson and Bruce Rigsby 1. Introduction by Nicolas Peterson and Bruce Rigsby 2. A survey of property theory and tenure types by Bruce Rigsby 3. Reimagining sea space: from Grotius to Mabo by Nonie Sharp 4. Aboriginal fishing rights on the New South Wales south coast: a court case by Scott Cane 5. Use and continuity in the customary marine tenure of the Whitsunday Islands by Bryce Barker 6. Salt water, fresh water and Yawuru social organisation by Patrick Sullivan 7. Marine tenure in the Wellesley Islands region, Gulf of Carpentaria by Paul Memmott and David Trigger 8. ‘We always look north’: Yanyuwa identity and the maritime environment by John J. Bradley 9. Customary marine tenure at Groote Eylandt by Peter Cooke and Gowan Armstrong 10. Gapu Dhulway, Gapu Maramba: conceptualisation and ownership of saltwater among the Burarra and Yan-nhangu peoples of northeast Arnhem Land by Geoffrey Bagshaw 11. Ownership and resource use on islands off the Liverpool River, Northern Territory by Peter Cooke and Gowan Armstrong 12. The Sandbeach People and the dugong hunters of Eastern Cape York Peninsula: property in land and sea country by Bruce Rigsby and Athol Chase 13. The Sea of Waubin: the Kaurareg and their marine environment by Michael Southon and the Kaurareg Tribal Elders 14. The promise of native title and the predicament of customary marine tenure by Sandra Pannell

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Nicolas Peterson is a professor of anthropology at the Australian National University. Bruce Rigsby is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Queensland.

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