Neither justice nor reason
Subtitle: a legal and anthropological analysis of aboriginal land rights
By: Marc Gumbert.
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: St Lucia, Qld., Australia; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure; Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs; Ethnology -- Australia -- History
Description: Gumbert examines the social and legal underpinnings of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 and the anthropological models of social organization underlying the presentation of claims under the act. In addition, he presents his own alternative model of Australian Aboriginal social organization and tests it against the requirements of the act as well as against evidence presented in a number of land claims ..."--Review, D.B. Rose.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [200]-206.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Paris-Sorbonne, 1983.
Includes index.