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Kingsley Palmer examines the practical work of anthropology within Australia’s native title system. Drawing on professional experience and legal cases, he explains how research about society, customary relationships and rights to country becomes evidence within a legal process.
Chapters consider the exercise of rights, religious knowledge, oral testimony, early written sources and disputes within and between claimant groups. Palmer also discusses genealogies, compensation and the constraints affecting expert practice. The book connects methodological questions with the demands of litigation, supported by diagrams, references, a separate case-law list and an index. It is intended for readers interested in the relationship between anthropological research and legal institutions.