Tradition, adaptation, the ‘Tide of History’ workshop: Issues for anthropology in research for native title claims and their aftermath

While legal decisions, negotiated outcomes and related commentary have indicated that establishing native title rights does not require an unchanging body of traditional law and custom, in practice this remains a difficult and contested area of anthropological research. Further challenges are encountered in the implications of changing law and custom for managing and implementing acknowledged rights arising from claims.

This document provides abstracts of papers delivered at a workshop hosted by the Anthropology School at the University of Queensland on 23 and 24 June 2008 at the St Lucia Campus