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Introduction to ‘Anthropology and change over the land rights era’
• . “ Land Rights and Development in Australia: Caring For, Benefiting From, Governing the Indigenous Estate .” In , edited by and , – . : Routledge. • . Law's Anthropology: From Ethnography to Expert Testimony in Native Title . : ANU Press. • . “ The Multifunctional Transition in Australia's Tropical Savannas: The Emergence of Consumption, Protection and Indigenous Values .” Geographical Research ( ): – . • . “ The Secularisation of Riverine Law in South-East Australia .” Anthropological Forum ( ): – .
Land claim legacies, native title, and the rigours of Indigenous politics
1 INTRODUCTION In October 2021 I was asked by several Waanyi people, through a law firm representing their interests, for an opinion on family members allegedly being excluded in a meeting to discuss money available due to various activities on the Waanyi-Garawa Land Trust.1 The Northern Land Council, based in Darwin, had the difficult task of arranging meetings to distribute funds earned through such land uses as contract cattle mustering and mining exploration.
David Trigger reviews 'My Life as a Jew' by Michael Gawenda
Michael Gawenda has written a deeply personal story about his Jewish identity. It comes during a period when conflict in Israel/Palestine has been painful for all. While he remains committed to a two-state future that supports the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians to live in their own countries, the author critiques influential sections of the political left where acceptance has come to require demonising the Jewish state.
David Trigger reviews 'My Life as a Jew' by Michael Gawenda
Michael Gawenda has written a deeply personal story about his Jewish identity. It comes during a period when conflict in Israel/Palestine has been painful for all. While he remains committed to a two-state future that supports the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians to live in their own countries, the author critiques influential sections of the political left where acceptance has come to require demonising the Jewish state.
The Power Broker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish life
Biography Reviewed by David Trigger • The Power Broker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish life by Michael Gawenda Monash University Publishing, $39.95 hb, 371 pp Biography Reviewed by David Trigger • Michael Gawenda’s engaging biography of Melbourne lawyer Mark Leibler traverses matters of Australia’s migration history, Jewish identity, and political influence. What has it meant to live a Jewish life in an Australian city?
The Professor and the Madman
When the British author Simon Winchester published the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne in 1998, the idea was, according to his editor, to ‘make lexicography cool’. The non-fiction work told the bizarre and oddly uplifting Victorian-era tale of the autodidactic linguist and scholar Sir James Murray and his relationship with William Chester Minor, a retired American army surgeon incarcerated at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.
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