Newsletter

Newsletter PDF Author: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Newsletter

Newsletter PDF Author: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Current Bibliography

Current Bibliography PDF Author:
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland

The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland PDF Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521085106
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Originally published in 1972, this study is dedicated to the surviving speakers of the Dyirbal, Giramay and Mamu dialects. For more than ten thousand years they lived in harmony with each other and with their environment. Over one hundred years ago many of them were shot and poisoned by European invaders. Those allowed to survive have been barely tolerated tenants on their own lands, and have had their beliefs, habits and language help up to ridicule and scorn. In the last decade they have seen their remaining forests taken and cleared by an American company, with the destruction of sites whose remembered antiquity is many thousands of years older than the furthest event in the shallow history of their desecrators. The survivors of the three tribes have stood up to these diversities with dignity and humour. They continue to look forward to the day when they may again be allowed to live in peaceful possession of some of their own lands, and may be accorded a respect that they have been denied, but which they have been forcibly made to accord to others.

Warraparna Kaurna!

Warraparna Kaurna! PDF Author: Rob Amery
Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
ISBN: 1925261255
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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This book tells the story of the renaissance of the Kaurna language, the language of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, principally over the earliest period up until 2000, but with a summary and brief discussion of developments from 2000 until 2016. It chronicles and analyses the efforts of the Nunga community, and interested others, to reclaim and relearn a linguistic heritage on the basis of mid-nineteenth-century materials. This study is breaking new ground. In the Kaurna case, very little knowledge of the language remained within the Aboriginal community. Yet the Kaurna language has become an important marker of identity and a means by which Kaurna people can further the struggle for recognition, reconciliation and liberation. This work challenges widely held beliefs as to what is possible in language revival and questions notions about the very nature of language and its development.

A Grammar of the Kuku Yalanji Language of North Queensland

A Grammar of the Kuku Yalanji Language of North Queensland PDF Author: Elisabeth Patz
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Kriol of North Australia

Kriol of North Australia PDF Author: John R. Sandefur
Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics Australian Aborigines Branch
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Cultural Anthropology: 101

Cultural Anthropology: 101 PDF Author: Jack David Eller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317550730
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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This concise and accessible introduction establishes the relevance of cultural anthropology for the modern world through an integrated, ethnographically informed approach. The book develops readers’ understanding and engagement by addressing key issues such as: What it means to be human The key characteristics of culture as a concept Relocation and dislocation of peoples The conflict between political, social and ethnic boundaries The concept of economic anthropology Cultural Anthropology: 101 includes case studies from both classic and contemporary ethnography, as well as a comprehensive bibliography and index. It is an essential guide for students approaching this fascinating field for the first time.

Alive and Kicking

Alive and Kicking PDF Author: Annie Langlois
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The goal of this work is to describe the changes occurring in the Pitjantjatjara speech of teenagers in Areyonga, a Central Australian community, from both a grammatical and a sociolinguistic point of view. The study is based on data collected in 1994 and 1995. At the time the data was being collected, the Areyonga community had about 200 inhabitants, more than half of them under 25 years of age. A key question of this work is the extent to which Areyonga Teenage Pitjantjatjara is being influenced by contact with English. In order to identify changes in Areyonga Teenage Pitjantjatjara, contemporary speech was compared with several independent descriptions of Traditional Pitjantjatjara (and similar neighbouring dialects). Personal observations of the author and discussions with older Pitjantjatjara people at Areyonga help to round out the picture obtained. The Areyonga population is predominantly young. Most of the older people have left the settlement to return to their community of origin. As a result, many traditional ways of living have not been transmitted fully to the following generation. However there is an undeniable striving to reintegrate traditions into the community and the teaching of the children. Consequently, there is a constant effort to educate children in their first language. What then is the state of Areyonga Teenage Pitjantjatjara? This book aims to answer this question.

Languages of Cape York

Languages of Cape York PDF Author: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
Publisher:
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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The Roots of Verbal Meaning

The Roots of Verbal Meaning PDF Author: John Beavers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198855788
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. It presents a new theory of possible root meanings and their interaction with event templates that produces a new typology of possible verbs, with semantic and grammatical properties determined not just by templates, but also by roots.