Disputation, Kinship and Land Tenure in Western Arnhem Land

Title: Disputation, Kinship and Land Tenure in Western Arnhem Land
Creator: Harvey, Mark
Relation: Skin, Kin and Clan: The Dynamics of Social Categories in Indigenous Australia p. 107-136
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/SKC.04.2018
Publisher: ANU Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2018
Description: This chapter considers the effects of varying levels of disputation on terminologies within the domains of kinship and land tenure. It compares reconstructions of disputation in precolonial Australia with materials on patterns of disputation over the postcolonial period. Precolonially, reconstructions agree that kinship terminologies across Australia were used to frame marriage claims, and involved a high level of disputation. Given the prominence of kinship terminologies in marriage disputes, inconsistencies between and indeterminacies within terminologies were highlighted over time and more likely to be addressed. In contrast, reconstructions agree that land tenure was rarely presented as an overt cause of disputation. Therefore, inconsistencies and indeterminacies were less foregrounded and subsequently less likely to be addressed.
Subject: disputation; kinship; land tenure; Western Arnhem land, (NT)
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1445622
Identifier: uon:42629
Identifier: ISBN:9781760461638
Language: eng

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