Customary Marine Tenure in Australia

Nicolas Peterson is a professor of anthropology at the Australian National University.Bruce Rigsby is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Queensland.

• Note to the 2014 edition by Peter WhitePreface by Nicolas Peterson and Bruce Rigsby1. Introduction by Nicolas Peterson and Bruce Rigsby2. A survey of property theory and tenure types by Bruce Rigsby3. Reimagining sea space: from Grotius to Mabo by Nonie Sharp4. Aboriginal fishing rights on the New South Wales south coast: a court case by Scott Cane5. Use and continuity in the customary marine tenure of the Whitsunday Islands by Bryce Barker6. Salt water, fresh water and Yawuru social organisation by Patrick Sullivan7. Marine tenure in the Wellesley Islands region, Gulf of Carpentaria by Paul Memmott and David Trigger8. ‘We always look north’: Yanyuwa identity and the maritime environment by John J. Bradley9. Customary marine tenure at Groote Eylandt by Peter Cooke and Gowan Armstrong 10. Gapu Dhulway, Gapu Maramba: conceptualisation and ownership of saltwater among the Burarra and Yan-nhangu peoples of northeast Arnhem Land by Geoffrey Bagshaw11. Ownership and resource use on islands off the Liverpool River, Northern Territory by Peter Cooke and Gowan Armstrong12. The Sandbeach People and the dugong hunters of Eastern Cape York Peninsula: property in land and sea country by Bruce Rigsby and Athol Chase13. The Sea of Waubin: the Kaurareg and their marine environment by Michael Southon and the Kaurareg Tribal Elders14. The promise of native title and the predicament of customary marine tenure by Sandra Pannell