Toni Bauman

• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Much of the attention paid to native title in Australia has focused on court proceedings and other legalities, but what does it actually mean to live with native title? This chapter introduces the structure of our edited book and outlines the case studies. It then highlights the key issues emerging from the case studies, as well as drawing on the l...

Much of the attention paid to native title in Australia has focused on court proceedings and other legalities, but what does it actually mean to live with native title? This book presents the experiences of native title holders and the corporations they have established to look after their native title interests. The influence of the renowned High...

Throughout Australia, many Aboriginal responses to the legislative and administrative pressures of the native title regime have been couched in a nation-building idiom expressed through legally incorporated Aboriginal associations. The membership criteria of these umbrella associations are often derived from definitions of the ‘tribe’ or ‘language...

This paper reflects on some of the dilemmas within my shifting roles over the last twenty years as helper/friend/member of the Katherine Indigenous community in the Northern Territory of Australia and then, as anthropologist. During this period, indigenous calls for land rights have been increasingly interpreted in the terms of 'bourgeois law' (Col...