Glaskin, Katie. Crosscurrents:law and society in a native title claim to land and sea. xxiii, 279 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Crawley, W.A.:UWA Publishing, 2017. ￡23.99 (paper)

摘要

This is an interesting book that, as the title suggests, interweaves critical considerations of contemporary legal discourse, social context, physical geography, and territoriality in Australian Indigenous rights claim processes. Katie Glaskin is well positioned to engage with her specific ethnographic focus-a native title claim by the Bardi and Jawi people of northern West Australia's remote Kimberley region-having become involved in the process as a young assistant anthropologist almost from the outset of legal proceedings. Now an associate professor (past winner of the JRAI Curl Essay prize), Glaskin is able to combine the personal intimacy of her anthropological encounters with the critical professional distance needed to assess the case preparation, trial, and outcomes over a journey lasting more than two decades.