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On the Visibility of Indigenous Australian systems of Marine Tenure: TECHNICAL REPORT

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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Between 1921 and 1977 twelve anthropologists worked in coastal communities of Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory, researching and writing about land tenure, among other things, yet not one of them mentioned the existence of a system of customary marine tenure (for the resulting publications see: Tindale 1925-6; Warner 1937; Worsley 1954; Berndt 1964,1970,1976; Rose 1960; Hiatt 1965; Shapiro 1969; Turner 1974; Meehan 1982; Morphy 1991; Keen 1994;Williams 1986). Some of them such as Ronald Berndt (1976) actually mapped sites in the sea. Today there is a well developed and dynamic system of indigenous marine tenure along the Arnhem Land Coast. This lack of visibility raises a number of questions including how old these systems are and why if they have any antiquity they have not been more visible.

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Title On the Visibility of Indigenous Australian systems of Marine Tenure: TECHNICAL REPORT
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/b524d5fc-167a-4ef4-a68a-540b38369010
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Nicolas.Peterson@anu.edu.au
Reference Period 16/12/2014
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "On the Visibility of Indigenous Australian systems of Marine Tenure: TECHNICAL REPORT". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/on-the-visibility-of-indigenous-australian-systems-of-marine-tenure-technical-report1