Western Desert and Native Title
How Models Become Myths
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2144268 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Dousset (0000-0002-6547-1749, Pacific Research Institute, corresponding author), Katie Glaskin (0000-0003-0703-0635, Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 127-148 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00664670701438399 |
| OpenAlex | W2044111499 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 29 |
A number of litigated Australian native title cases concern lands located within the area of Australia known as the Western Desert. In these cases, legal arguments concerning the nature of the land‐owning group and the ‘society’ at the time of colonisation have inevitably drawn on anthropological writings about Western Desert local and social organisation. The impetus for this paper was provided by the Yulara case, a compensation claim over the township of Yulara near Uluru, in which the trial judge concluded that land tenure systems in the Western Desert are based on patrilineal principles. One of the significant factors in the Court's decision was an apparently uncritical acceptance of early anthropological models and data, which had reported supposedly patrilineal socio‐territorial organisation in the Western Desert. Researchers currently working in this region and Indigenous peoples themselves, however, reject this model. In this paper, we question the validity of some of the earlier investigations, and propose an alternative understanding of Western Desert territorial organisation based on data gathered from one of the Pitjantjatjara‐speaking people's neighbouring dialectal groups, which is also consistent with most of the other recent and extensive work done in this cultural bloc
Desert (philosophy · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Mythology · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Ecology · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law
Systems in Geography or Geography of Systems? Attempts to Represent Spatial Distributions of Australian Social Organisation
Entre discours « traditionnalisants » et discours conformistes
L'anthropologie au tribunal. Les revendications foncières des Aborigènes en Australie
Habitation Fixe ou campement de fortune
From Descent, to Multiple Pathways, to Descent
Inclusion-Exclusion
Identifying the Relevant Level of a Society in Australian Native Title Claims
Native Title in Australia
General Report on the Anthropological Expedition to the Warburton Range, Western Australia, July‐september, 1935
Local Organization Among the Australian Aborigines
The Social Organization of South Australian Tribes
Phonology of the Australian Aboriginal Language Spoken at Ooldea, South Australia, 1951–1952
The Concept of ‘The Tribe’ in the Western Desert of Australia. 1
The Lost Horde
The Social Organization of Australian Tribes
The Linguistic Prehistory Of Australia
L'alliance de mariage et la promesse d'épouses chez les Ngaatjatjarra du Désert de l'Ouest australien
I can't follow you on this horde-clan business at all
Lost Tribes
Nomadic' Rituals
Les structures élémentaires de la parenté
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook
On the misinterpretation of the Aluridja kinship system type (Australian Western Desert)
The Idea of Indigenous People
Local Group Composition Among the Australian Aborigines
Introduction
Language groups in Australian aboriginal land claims
Egalitarianism and inequality in a western desert culture
Exogamy or endogamy
Dialect differentiation in the western desert - a comment
Dialect differentiation in the western desert language
Yulara and Future Expert Reports in Native Title Cases
Accounting for context and substance
The Politico-Historical construction of the Pintupi Luritja and the Concept of Tribe
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |