Download or read book The Lardil People of Mornington Island written by Joan Binnion and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book People Countries and the Rainbow Serpent written by David McKnight and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lardil, an Australian Aboriginal tribe, have a rich and complex cognitive culture and are native speakers of three different languages, each used for different ocassions. McKnight examines their systems of classifying the world, and creates the first inventory of the cognitive aspects oftheir social structures (including kinship, myth, and ritual) of an Aboriginal tribe.

Download or read book What Do You Know about Mornington Island written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief history of Mission, cultural heritage preserved amongst Lardil people.

Download or read book The Lardil People of Mornington Island Teacher Handbook written by Joan Binnion and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gunanamanda written by Joan Binnion and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lardil written by David McKnight and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lardil Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What Now written by Cameo Dalley and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents. There is also extensive treatment of contemporary issues relating to alcohol consumption, violence and the impact of systemic ill health. This richly detailed portrayal provides a nuanced account of everyday endurance and social intensity on Mornington Island.

Download or read book Material Culture of the North Wellesley Islands written by Paul Memmott and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an ethnographic description of the material culture traditionally employed by the Aboriginal people of the North Wellesley Islands in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.

Download or read book Marnbil Diwel Diwel and Djin Djin story written by Phil Jack and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Heart of Everything written by Nicholas Evans and published by McCulloch & McCulloch. This book was released on 2008 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a special limited edition hardback of The Heart of Everything, with unique endpapers featuring Sally Gabori's painting Ninjilki. From totem designs used for body paint-up to sweeps of brilliant colour on canvas, the art of Mornington and Bentinck Islands has a long and rich history. This major new book - featuring the work of artists from Mornington Island Arts & Craft centre - explores, for the first time, the history and visual culture of the region and its wide ranging contemporary art movement. Founded by brothers Dick and Lindsay Roughsey in the 1960s, todays' artists of Mornington Island, off the far north Queensland coast, are creating fresh and exciting imagery. Alongside this, led by Sally Gabori, has developed a whole new school of joyous paintings by the Kaiadilt artists of nearby Bentinck Islands. Lavishly illustrated throughout the book features a stunning four page fold-out of a large collaborative painting and informative essays by Dr Paul Memmott and Dr Nicholas Evans and art writer Louise Martin-Chew, and with biographies of the leading exhibiting artists, The Heart of Everything is an in-depth exploration of the vibrant contemporary art of this fascinating region of Australia's far north.

Download or read book Our Island written by Children of Gununa and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our island lies beneath a big blue sky, surrounded by the turquoise sea. Turtles glide through the clear salt water, and dugongs graze on banks of seagrass. In this lyrical celebration of place, the children of Mornington Islandexplore theirhome in words and pictures. This is a collaboration withmuch-loved children's picture-book creators authors Alison Lester and ElizabethHoney. All royalties from Our Island and one dollar from the sale of each copy are donated to Mornington Island State School to fund art projects in the community.

Download or read book Legends of the Lardill of Mornington Island written by Percy Trezise and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 legends - The Saga of Marnbill and Dewal-le-wul; The Seagull and the White Crane; The Sweet Potato Woman; first initiation.

Download or read book The Rainbow Serpent written by Dick Roughsey and published by Harpercollins Childrens Books. This book was released on 1993-09-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the aborigine story of creation featuring Goorialla, the great Rainbow Serpent.

Download or read book Intellectual Property Indigenous People and their Knowledge written by Peter Drahos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on ancestral cosmology of Australia's indigenous people, this book develops a theory of indigenous peoples' innovation and intellectual property.

Download or read book Lardil notes from Recordings Made May 1966 written by Charles Roland Osborne and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entire population of Mornington Island still speak Lardil; vocabulary of 130 words and phrases; informants - Wanji, Gangalita, Garawa available.

Download or read book A Grammar of Kayardild written by Nicholas D. Evans and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.