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'Paul Burke has had a long career as a lawyer and anthropologist. In his legal phase he worked for Aboriginal legal aid and the Central Land Council in Alice Springs.  Following his conversion to anthropology he has worked on native title claims and undertaken anthropological research. His first book, Law’s Anthropology: From Ethnography to Expert Testimony in Native Title (2011) is a Bourdieu-inspired account of the interaction of law and anthropology in native title claims. His most recent work, An Australian Indigenous Diaspora: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition (2018) is a detailed ethnographic account of the cultural implications of Indigenous migration away from traditional country. He is an honorary lecturer at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at ANU.'

Source: AJBH Journal 2019.