Download or read book Recirculating Songs written by James William Wafer and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print edition of multi-author work on Indigenous song. This is the first volume devoted specifically to the revitalisation of ancestral Indigenous singing practices in Australia. These traditions are at severe risk in many parts of the country, and this book investigates the strategies currently being implemented to reverse the damage. In some areas the ancestral musical culture is still transmitted across the generations; in others it is partially remembered, and being revitalised with the assistance of heritage recording and written documentation; but in many parts of Australia, the transmission of songs has been interrupted, and in those places revitalisation relies on research and restoration. The authors, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, consider these issues across a broad range of geographical locations, and from a number of different theoretical and methodological angles. The chapters provide helpful insights for Indigenous people and communities, researchers and educators, and anyone interested in the song traditions of Indigenous Australia.

Download or read book Talking with Aborigines written by John Richard Von Sturmer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Skin Kin and Clan written by Patrick McConvell and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is unique in the world for its diverse and interlocking systems of Indigenous social organisation. On no other continent do we see such an array of complex and contrasting social arrangements, coordinated through a principle of 'universal kinship' whereby two strangers meeting for the first time can recognise one another as kin. For some time, Australian kinship studies suffered from poor theorisation and insufficient aggregation of data. The large-scale AustKin project sought to redress these problems through the careful compilation of kinship information. Arising from the project, this book presents recent original research by a range of authors in the field on the kinship and social category systems in Australia. A number of the contributions focus on reconstructing how these systems originated and developed over time. Others are concerned with the relationship between kinship and land, the semantics of kin terms and the dynamics of kin interactions.

Download or read book Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines written by W. Ramsay Smith and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of their campfire tales, the aboriginal people of Australia looked to the skies, where they found a twinkling text of morals and stories within their own version of the zodiac. Today, the starry birds, fishes, and dancing men that provided a backdrop to life Down Under for thousands of years have found a new popularity beyond Australia. With this colorful compilation of oral traditions, readers can savor the tales as they were told by their aboriginal narrators. Footnotes throughout the text clarify occasional obscurities, providing background on aboriginal life and customs as the need for explanation arises. For the most part, however, the author allows the myths to speak for themselves, without any attempt to support or disprove anthropological theories. The myths range in nature and tone from reverent recountings of the origins of the world and human life, to legends about the roots of religious and social customs, to fanciful and humorous animal fables. Unabridged republication of Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, Ballantyne Press-Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd., London, n.d., ca. 1930. Index. 63 black-and-white illustrations.

Download or read book Languages of Cape York written by Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Songs of Central Australia written by Theodor George Henry Strehlow and published by Angus & Robertson Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Strehlow's most widely regarded work and the culmination of his anthropological work related to the Aranda (Arunta) people of the Alice Springs region. In this work Strehlow records the patrilineal chants or songs of the Aranda people and puts them into a wider context of totemic cultural understanding. Of particular interest is Chapter 10, the love songs of the Aranda people, which pre-date European romantic conventions by several thousand years.

Download or read book Language in Time and Space written by Brigitte L.M. Bauer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The honoree of this Festschrift has for many years now marked modern trends in diachronic and synchronic linguistics by his own publications and by stimulating those of numerous others. This collection of articles presents data-oriented studies that integrate modern and traditional approaches in the field, thus reflecting the honoree's contribution to contemporary linguistics. The articles relate to comparative data from (early) Indo-European languages and a variety of other languages and discuss the theoretical implications of phenomena such as linguistic universals, reconstruction, and language classification.

Download or read book Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories written by Peggy Rockman Napaljarri and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fifteen stories from Warlpiri elders reflects the importance of the Dreaming in all its manifestations. Recorded and translated here for the first time are stories rich with insight into aboriginal spirituality and life.

Download or read book Why Weren t We Told written by Henry Reynolds and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told? is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and idealised version of the past. From the author's unforgettable encounter in a North Queensland jail with injustice towards Aboriginal children, to his friendship with Eddi Mabo, to his shattering of the myths about our 'peaceful' history, this bestselling book will shock, move and intrigue. Why Weren't We Told? is crucial reading on the most important debate in Australia as we enter the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Ngarinyman to English Dictionary written by Felicity Meakins and published by Dictionaries Project. This book was released on 2019 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ngarinyman is an Aboriginal language of the northern VictoriaRiver District in the Northern Territory (Australia). ManyNgarinyman people live in Yarralin, Bulla Camp, Amanbidji(Kildurk) and around Timber Creek. The Ngarinyman to EnglishDictionary contains Ngarinyman words with English translations,illustrations and detailed encyclopaedic information about plants, animals and cultural practices. Also included is a guide toNgarinyman grammar and an English index. This volume is idealfor both beginners and advanced speakers of Ngarinyman, fortranslators and interpreters, and for anyone interested in learningmore about Ngarinyman language and culture. The Ngarinyman to English Dictionary is a part of the AIATSISIndigenous Language Preservation: Dictionaries Project. Thisproject is a response to the alarming rates of language loss inAustralia, and aims to support the publication of Indigenouslanguages dictionaries. A dictionary contributes to languagemaintenance, supporting written texts of all genres includingimportant literacy development resources. Dictionaries are avaluable addition to the tool kit of language learners, educators,interpreters and translators. The Dictionaries Project will producea number of much-needed, high-quality dictionaries of Indigenouslanguages, which will contribute to community efforts to revitaliseand strengthen their languages. The Dictionaries Project is proudlyfunded by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Download or read book White Man Got No Dreaming written by W. E. H. Stanner and published by Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. This book was released on 1979 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at 'the Aboriginal problem' from an unusual viewpoint - that of the Aborigines themselves, for whom 'the Aboriginal problem' is the white Australian. The essays deal with all those features of traditional Aboriginal life that made it so deeply satisfying to the original Australians: religion, attachment to land, imaginative culture, and the whole ethos on which the impact of Europeans and their way of life has been destructive. The Aborigines have been dispossessed, exploited, rejected and on occasions reviled. What we now offer them is, from an Aboriginal point of view, neither true reconciliation nor equality. The author argues that race relations will deteriorate even farther than the neuralgic point to which our ethnocentric insensibility has already brought them unless white Australians make an effort to comprehend the Aboriginal truths of life.

Download or read book The Singing of the New World written by Gary Tomlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of indigenous music-making in New World societies, including the Aztecs and the Incas.

Download or read book The Destruction of Aboriginal Society written by C. D. Rowley and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Euahlayi Tribe A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia written by K.Langloh Parker and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exclusive work by Parker, it focuses on the customs, beliefs, traditions and folk-lore of Australian Aborigines. This is Parker's personal account of her intimacy which developed when she lived among the people of the Euahlayi tribe. She started to take interest in their culture after her rescue by a native girl of this tribe. Superb!...

Download or read book The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1972-12-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Sydney Language written by Jakelin Troy and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English to Sydney language wordlist in semantic domains; notes on Sydney contact history, documentation of Sydney language, orthography, phonotactics and grammatical notes.

Download or read book Comparative Studies in Northern Kimberley Languages written by Arthur Capell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative syntax, morphology and phonology of Northern Kimberley languages Worrorra, Ngarinyin, Wonambal, Ungguni, Winyjarrumi, Yawjibarra, Unggarangu, Umida, Wilawila, Gambere, Miwa, Kwini, Guwij, Munumburru, Wolyamidi, Worla, Kija, Kulwarrang; Miriwung, Kajirrawung, Bunuba, Gooniyandi, comparisons with other Aboriginal languages.