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Aboriginal placenames: naming and re-naming the Australian landscape

Object category:
Elektronische Ressource
Person/Institution:
Hercus, L.
Koch, Harold James
Publisher:
ANU E Press
Place of publication:
Canberra
Date:
2009
Language:
Englisch
Abstract:
"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."--Publisher's description.
Object text:
editors, Luise Hercus, Harold Koch
English
Contents:
Introduction: Old and new aspects of Indigenous place-naming; Reinstating Aboriginal placenames around Port Jackson and Botany Bay; The recognition of Aboriginal placenames in New South Wales; New insights into Gundungurra place naming; The methodology of reconstructing Indigenous placenames: Australian Capital Territory and south-eastern New South Wales; Reviving old Indigenous names for new purposes; Reconstruction of Aboriginal microtoponymy in western and central Victoria: Case studies from Tower Hill, the Hopkins River, and Lake Boga; Why Mulligan is not just another Irish name: Lake Callabonna, South Australia; Murkarra, a landscape nearly forgotten: The Arabana country of the noxious insects, north and northwest of Lake Eyre; Some area names in the far north-east of South Australia; Placenames of central Australia: European records and recent experience; Dog-people: The meaning of a north Kimberley story; 'Where the spear sticks up': The variety of locatives in placenames in the Victoria River District, Northern Territory; 'This place already has a name' Melanie Wilkinson,; Manankurra: What's in a name? Placenames and emotional geographies; Kurtjar placenames

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