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Aboriginal peoples, colonialism and international law :

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041572175X (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9780415721752 (hardback)

Erroneous ISBN

9781315858999 (ebk.)

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Title Proper

Aboriginal peoples, colonialism and international law :

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[Book]

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raw law /

First Statement of Responsibility

Irene Watson

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 188 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Indigenous peoples and the law

Text of Note

"A GlassHouse Book."

Text of Note

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral - University of Adelaide, Dept. of Law, 2000) issued under title: Raw law : the coming of the Muldarbi and the path to its demise --Title page verso

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-177) and index

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Introduction -- Kaldowinyeri -- Raw law, song, ceremony, ruwe : law in the margins -- Naked : the coming of the cloth -- Who's your mob? -- how are you related? -- Dressed to kill -- Indigenous ways : a future

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"This work is the first to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition. It begins by outlining the Aboriginal legal system as it is embedded in Aboriginal people's complex relationship with their ancestral lands. This is Raw Law : a natural system of obligations and benefits, flowing from an Aboriginal ontology. And this book places Raw Law at the centre of an analysis of colonization - thereby decentring the usual analytical tendency to privilege the dominant structures and concepts of Western law. From the perspective of Aboriginal law, colonisation was a violation of the code of political and social conduct embodied in Raw Law. Its effects were damaging. It forced Aboriginal peoples to violate their own principles of natural responsibility to self, community, country and future existence. But this book is not simply a work of mourning. Most profoundly, it is a celebration of the resilience of Aboriginal ways, and a call for these to be recognized as central in discussions of colonial and postcolonial legality"--

Aboriginal Australians-- Legal status, laws, etc

Aboriginal Australians-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- Social aspects

Indigenous peoples (International law)

Law, Aboriginal Australian

Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian

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Watson, Irene, (Irene Margaret)

Watson, Irene, (Irene Margaret).

Date of Transaction

20150302090444.0

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