LECTURE: Ronald M. and Catherine H. Berndt Biennial Lecture 2009

Anthropology, Politics and the Changing World of Aboriginal Australians

Marcia Langton holds the inaugural Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne where she teaches and undertakes research on agreements with Indigenous people. Previously the founding Director of the Centre for Indigenous, Natural and Cultural Resource Management (CINCRM) and Ranger Professor of Aboriginal Studies at the Northern Territory University, Langton has established and managed several collaborative research projects in the Northern Territory in the field of traditional resource rights. She is a specialist in Aboriginal land tenure and resource issues, and has published on native title, Aboriginal land rights, resource issues, customary law and cultural resource issues and Aboriginal art.