[PDF] Aboriginal Place Names And Their Meanings eBook

Author : Luise Hercus
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1921666099

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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.

Author : Ludwig Glauert
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 1950
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Lists Aboriginal place names in the south-west of W.A.

Author : James R. Tyrrell
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Aboriginal Australians
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Alphabetical listing of Aboriginal place names and their meanings ; includes photographs of Aboriginal Australians from different parts of Australia.

Author : Aldo Massola
Publisher : [Melbourne] : Lansdowne
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Names, Geographical
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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.

Author : Ian D. Clark
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1925021637

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This book showcases current research into Indigenous and minority placenames in Australia and internationally. Many of the chapters in this volume originated as papers at a Trends in Toponymy conference hosted by the University of Ballarat in 2007 that featured Australian and international speakers. The chapters in this volume provide insight into the quality of toponymic research that is being undertaken in Australia and in countries such as Canada, Finland, South Africa, New Zealand, and Norway. The research presented here draws on the disciplines of linguistics, geography, history, and anthropology. The book includes meticulous studies of placenames in central NSW and the Upper Hunter region; Gundungurra cave names; western Arnhem Land; Northern Cape York Peninsula and Mount Wheeler in Queensland; saltwater placenames around Mer in the Torres Strait; and the Kaurna in South Australia.

Author : Luise Anna Hercus
Publisher : Anu Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9781921536564

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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.