The Yolngu and Their Land: a System of Land Tenure and the Fight for Its Recognition
by: Nancy M. Williams

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 264 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The book focuses on the Aboriginal system of land tenure in the northeast of Arnhem Land, Australia. Yolngu land tenure is a system based on rational economic principles while deriving its validity and moral force from a rich religious mythology. The book is a contribution to the ethnography of Australian Aborigines, to comparative hunter-gatherer studies, to the analysis of systems of land tenure, and to the history of ideas about property. Clean copy.