Kingsley Palmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kingsley Palmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kingsley |
| FAMILY NAME | Palmer |
| SIGNATURE | PALMER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Australian Native Title Anthropology
The Australian Federal Native Title Act 1993 marked a revolution in the recognition of the rights of Australia’s Indigenous peoples. The legislation established a means whereby Indigenous Australians could make application to the Federal Court for the recognition of their rights to traditional country. The fiction that Australia was terra nullius (or ‘void country’), which had
Aborigines and atomic testing in South Australia
In this paper I outline some of the events that have affected a group of Aboriginal people who now live in the far west of South Australia. The history of their contact with non-Aboriginal people has been one of alienation and dispossession as well as a requirement to respond to the variety of differing (and sometimes contradictory) government and mission policies. The complexity of the policies, the diversity of the issues and the variety of age…
Favourite foods and the fight for country
The history of the struggle of the Southern Pitjantjatjara to regain their homelands marked by successive frustrations and setbacks by government interference. The people were heavily affected by the building of the Trans Line as they were abandoned from their homelands
Piety, Fact and the Oral Account in Native Title Claims
In native title claims, accounts provided by claimants have played a key role in determining outcomes. Claimants provide the principal data upon which an expert bases his or her view, set out in an expert or connection report. Typically, claimant affidavits are filed in support of a claim and, if the matter goes to trial, claimant testimony has usually been considered by the courts to be the principal component of the evidence considered. Sansom …
Stone Arrangements and Mythology
Owner' and 'Managers
Introductory comments concern the duality of some Australian Aboriginal social organi-zations, particularly with respect to ritual action and the enunciation of rights to land. Ethnographic data are presented from the north of Western Australia. Aborigines in this region own land which they inherit and members of a patri-moiety realize their rights in land through subsequent ritual performances. However, members of their opposed patrimoiety who a…
Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation, by Andrew Armitage; Vancouver, BC
Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation, by Andrew Armitage; Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 1995. xiii + 286 pp. Reviewed by Kingsley Palmer, Deputy Principal, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, Australia
Ronald Murray Berndt 1916–1990
Ownership and use of the seas
Simple justice and compensation
Aboriginal Oral Tradition from the South-west of Western Australia
Oral Folk-Tales of Wessex
Modern Oral Traditions amongst Overland Travellers
Australian Native Title Anthropology
The Australian Federal Native Title Act 1993 marked a revolution in the recognition of the rights of Australia’s Indigenous peoples. The legislation established a means whereby Indigenous Australians could make application to the Federal Court for the recognition of their rights to traditional country. The fiction that Australia was terra nullius (or ‘void country’), which had
Ownership and use of the seas
Modern Oral Traditions amongst Overland Travellers
Modern Oral Traditions amongst Overland Travellers
Aboriginal Oral Tradition from the South-west of Western Australia
Oral Folk-Tales of Wessex
Ownership and use of the seas
Simple justice and compensation
Ronald Murray Berndt 1916–1990
Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation, by Andrew Armitage; Vancouver, BC
Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation, by Andrew Armitage; Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 1995. xiii + 286 pp. Reviewed by Kingsley Palmer, Deputy Principal, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, Australia
Owner' and 'Managers
Introductory comments concern the duality of some Australian Aboriginal social organi-zations, particularly with respect to ritual action and the enunciation of rights to land. Ethnographic data are presented from the north of Western Australia. Aborigines in this region own land which they inherit and members of a patri-moiety realize their rights in land through subsequent ritual performances. However, members of their opposed patrimoiety who a…
Stone Arrangements and Mythology
Aborigines and atomic testing in South Australia
In this paper I outline some of the events that have affected a group of Aboriginal people who now live in the far west of South Australia. The history of their contact with non-Aboriginal people has been one of alienation and dispossession as well as a requirement to respond to the variety of differing (and sometimes contradictory) government and mission policies. The complexity of the policies, the diversity of the issues and the variety of age…
Favourite foods and the fight for country
The history of the struggle of the Southern Pitjantjatjara to regain their homelands marked by successive frustrations and setbacks by government interference. The people were heavily affected by the building of the Trans Line as they were abandoned from their homelands
Piety, Fact and the Oral Account in Native Title Claims
In native title claims, accounts provided by claimants have played a key role in determining outcomes. Claimants provide the principal data upon which an expert bases his or her view, set out in an expert or connection report. Typically, claimant affidavits are filed in support of a claim and, if the matter goes to trial, claimant testimony has usually been considered by the courts to be the principal component of the evidence considered. Sansom …
Australian Native Title Anthropology
The Australian Federal Native Title Act 1993 marked a revolution in the recognition of the rights of Australia’s Indigenous peoples. The legislation established a means whereby Indigenous Australians could make application to the Federal Court for the recognition of their rights to traditional country. The fiction that Australia was terra nullius (or ‘void country’), which had
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)