Traffic‐habits and local descent groups: Broadening the scope of ethnographic research into land rights after land claims.
Anthropologists have been assisting in the identification of 'traditional owners' in Northern Territory land claims for 50 years. This is becoming a lesser part of their workload as most outstanding claims have now been resolved. A key element of traditional ownership as statutorily defined is the '...
| Publicado en: | Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 40 - 55 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2025
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