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" Aboriginal peoples, colonialism and international law : "
Irene Watson
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BL
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628556
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Watson, Irene, (Irene Margaret)
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Aboriginal peoples, colonialism and international law : : raw law /\ Irene Watson
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| Series Statement
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Indigenous peoples and the law
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xiv, 188 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780415721752 (hardback)
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: 041572175X (hardback)
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9781315858999 (ebk.)
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"A GlassHouse Book."
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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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| Contents
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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"--
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Aboriginal Australians-- Legal status, laws, etc
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Aboriginal Australians-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- Social aspects
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Indigenous peoples (International law)
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Law, Aboriginal Australian
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Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian
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KU354.W38 2015
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KU354.W38 2015
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Watson, Irene, (Irene Margaret).
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