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dc.contributor.authorBurke, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-12 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T14:54:05Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T14:54:05Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier459356
dc.identifierOCN: 994503990en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33698
dc.description.abstractAnthropologists have been appearing as key expert witnesses in native title claims for over 20 years. Until now, however, there has been no theoretically-informed, detailed investigation of how the expert testimony of anthropologists is formed and how it is received by judges. This book examines the structure and habitus of both the field of anthropology and the juridical field and how they have interacted in four cases, including the original hearing in the Mabo case. The analysis of background material has been supplemented by interviews with the key protagonists in each case. This allows the reader a unique, insider’s perspective of the courtroom drama that unfolds in each case. The book asks, given the available ethnographic research, how will the anthropologist reconstruct it in a way that is relevant to the legal doctrine of native title when that doctrine gives a wide leeway for interpretation on the critical questions: what is the relevant grouping, what can be counted as a traditional law and when has there been too much change of tradition? How will such evidence be received by judges who are becoming increasingly sceptical about experts tailoring their evidence to suit the party which called them? This book answers these questions by assuming that there is more at stake here than the mere performance of roles. Rather, there is a complex interaction of distinct social fields each with its own habitus, and individual actors are engaged in an active and constructive agency, however subtle, which the painstaking research for this book uncovers.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::L Lawen_US
dc.subject.otheraustralia
dc.subject.otherlaw and legislation
dc.subject.otheranthropology
dc.subject.otherAboriginal Australians
dc.subject.otherAboriginal title
dc.subject.otherBroome
dc.subject.otherWestern Australia
dc.subject.otherEthnography
dc.subject.otherExpert witness
dc.subject.otherLand tenure
dc.subject.otherYawuru
dc.titleLaw's Anthropology
dc.title.alternativeFrom ethnography to expert testimony in native title
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_459356
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.pages326
oapen.place.publicationCanberra
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Aboriginal Australians - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_Australians; Aboriginal title - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_title; Anthropology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology; Broome, Western Australia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broome,_Western_Australia; Ethnography - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography; Expert witness - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_witness; Land tenure - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_tenure; Yawuru - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawuru
oapen.identifier.ocn994503990


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