Customary marine tenure in Australia
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Customary marine tenure in Australia
Author/s: Edited by Nicolas Peterson and Bruce Rigsby
Sydney University Press
ISBN: 9781743323892
Most Australians are familiar with the concept of land ownership and understand the meaning of native title, which recognises Indigenous peoples' rights to land to which they are spiritually or culturally connected. The ownership of areas of sea and its resources is often overlooked however, despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander connections with the sea being just as important as those with the land.
The papers in this volume demonstrate how the concept of customary marine tenure has developed in various communities and look at some of its implications. Originating in a session of papers at a conference in 1996, the papers in this volume were originally published as Oceania Monograph 48 in 1998.
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Recent Submissions
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The Sandbeach People and dugong hunters of Eastern Cape York Peninsula: property in land and sea country
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The promise of native title and the predicament of customary marine tenure
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Ownership and resource use on islands off the Liverpool River, Northern Territory
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The Sea of Waubin: the Kaurareg and their marine environment
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Gapu Dhulway, Gapu Maramba: conceptualisation and ownership of saltwater among the Burarra and Yannhangu peoples of northeast Arnhem Land
Published 2014-02-19Book chapter