Law's anthropology : from ethnography to expert testimony in native title /

"Anthropologists 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 examin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Burke, Paul, 1956- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Canberra, AT : ANU E Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Native title (Australia) > Law and legislation. Judicial process. Evidence, Expert. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural. Anthropology Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Towards an Ethnography of Anthropology's Encounter with Modern Law
Anthropological Knowledge of the Murray Islands Prior to the Mabo Case
Beckett in Mabo
The Anthropology of the Broome Region
The Anthropology of Broome on Trial
The Enigma of Traditional Western Desert Land Tenure
Western Desert Ethnography on Trial
Apocalypse Yulara? The emergence of a judicial discourse of 'junk' anthropology.