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Aboriginal Placenames
Author | : Luise Hercus |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1921666099 |
Aboriginal approaches to the naming of places across Australia differ radically from the official introduced Anglo-Australian system. However, many of these earlier names have been incorporated into contemporary nomenclature, with considerable reinterpretations of their function and form. Recently, state jurisdictions have encouraged the adoption of a greater number of Indigenous names, sometimes alongside the accepted Anglo-Australian terms, around Sydney Harbour, for example. In some cases, the use of an introduced name, such as Gove, has been contested by local Indigenous people. The 19 studies brought together in this book present an overview of current issues involving Indigenous placenames across the whole of Australia, drawing on the disciplines of geography, linguistics, history, and anthropology. They include meticulous studies of historical records, and perspectives stemming from contemporary Indigenous communities. The book includes a wealth of documentary information on some 400 specific placenames, including those of Sydney Harbour, the Blue Mountains, Canberra, western Victoria, the Lake Eyre district, the Victoria River District, and southwestern Cape York Peninsula.
Aboriginal Place Names of South-east Australia and Their Meanings
Author | : Aldo Massola |
Publisher | : [Melbourne] : Lansdowne |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Names, Geographical |
ISBN | : |
Some original names of natural features, notes on easy misunderstandings of Aboriginal words by settlers; Approx. 2138 words with Eng. meanings, 98 listed bibliographies & 10 documented manuscript material.
The Land is a Map
Author | : Luise Hercus |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2009-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1921536578 |
The entire Australian continent was once covered with networks of Indigenous placenames. These names often evoke important information about features of the environment and their place in Indigenous systems of knowledge. On the other hand, placenames assigned by European settlers and officials are largely arbitrary, except for occasional descriptive labels such as 'river, lake, mountain'. They typically commemorate people, or unrelated places in the Northern hemisphere. In areas where Indigenous societies remain relatively intact, thousands of Indigenous placenames are used, but have no official recognition. Little is known about principles of forming and bestowing Indigenous placenames. Still less is known about any variation in principles of placename bestowal found in different Indigenous groups. While many Indigenous placenames have been taken into the official placename system, they are often given to different features from those to which they originally applied. In the process, they have been cut off from any understanding of their original meanings. Attempts are now being made to ensure that additions of Indigenous placenames to the system of official placenames more accurately reflect the traditions they come from. The eighteen chapters in this book range across all of these issues. The contributors (linguistics, historians and anthropologists) bring a wide range of different experiences, both academic and practical, to their contributions. The book promises to be a standard reference work on Indigenous placenames in Australia for many years to come.
Australian Aboriginal Place-names and Their Meanings
Author | : James R. Tyrrell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | : |
Alphabetical listing of Aboriginal place names and their meanings ; includes photographs of Aboriginal Australians from different parts of Australia.