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Law’s Anthropology: From ethnography to expert testimony in native title

Lists of Maps, Tables and Figures

List of Maps

Map 2.1 Villages and districts on Mer 

Map 4.1 The claim area (Broome Aboriginal Reserve Land Trust) in relation to Broome and Roebuck Plains 

Map 4.2 Anthropological fieldwork locations in the Broome region

Map 4.3 Detail of Elkin’s sketch map of the Kimberley Division showing the approximate location of tribes

Map 4.4 Detail of Tindale’s tribal map of Australia showing the Broome region

Map 6.1 Location of De Rose Hill Station in relation to the Pitjantjatjara Lands

Map 6.2 Selected fieldwork sites of anthropological research on Western Desert peoples

Map 6.3 The location of De Rose Hill Station on Elkin’s sketch map of Western Desert tribal areas

Map 6.4 The location of De Rose Hill Station on Tindale’s tribal map 

Map 6.5 Historical map of pastoral lands east of De Rose Hill Station 

Map 8.1 Yulara location map

List of Tables

Table 1.1 Important variables in the case studies

Table 2.1 Chronology of anthropological research on Torres Strait Islanders

Table 2.2 Summary comparison of the Reports, Beckett and Sharp

Table 4.1 Elkin’s table of ‘Yauor’ local groups and Dreamings

Table 4.2 One hundred years of describing traditional landowning groups around Broome

Table 6.1 Potential title-holding groups in the anthropological literature on Western Desert peoples

List of Figures

Figure 1.1 Idealised model of anthropological agency

Figure 2.1 Haddon’s painting of an imagined Malo–Bomai ceremony in pre-contact times

Figure 2.2 Photograph of Haddon’s informants seated at the cleared Tomog shrine

Figure 2.3 Illustration in Stars of Tagai of Bomai in octopus form

Figure 2.4 Beckett’s photograph of a 1961 Malo–Bomai performance

Figure 3.1 Dave Passi, Eddie Mabo, Bryan Keon-Cohen and James Rice outside the Queensland Supreme Court in 1989 

Figure 4.1 Diagram from Radcliffe-Brown’s The Social Organisation of Australian Tribes 

Figure 9.1 Revised idealised model of anthropological agency 


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