Rights and redemption : history, law and indigenous people /
"Aboriginal people have been able to use the courts to try to seek redress, particularly when political options have been limited. To do this they have had to use historical arguments, and as such history and historians have had to enter the courtroom. This highly original book brings together...
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Coogee, N.S.W. :
University of New South Wales Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Historians in the courtroom: a history; 2 Mabo and history; 3 Native title: proof and historical evidence; 4 Historians, expertise & the native title process; 5 Judicial historiography and the question of genocide; 6 Mourning the stolen generations: the role of redemptive history; 7 From Kumurangk to Hindmarsh Island: law's anthropology; 8 Contested identities and histories: Shaw v Wolf; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.