Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country
This volume offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work focused on Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, in Australia’s northeast. The volume also honours Bruce Rigsby, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland, whose work has inspired all of the contributors. The papers in the volume are organized in terms of five key themes, including the use of historical and archaeological methods to reconstruct aspects of language and social organization, anthropological and linguistic work uncovering aspects of world view embedded in languages and ethnographic data sets, the study of post-contact transformations in language and society, and the return of archival data to communities. Its thematic intersections draw together the varied disciplinary threads in an overview of the cultures and languages of the region, and will appeal to all those interested in Australian Aboriginal studies, linguistics, anthropology and associated disciplines.
[Culture and Language Use, 18] 2016. x, 492 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 January 2016
Published online on 26 January 2016
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface and acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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General maps | pp. ix–x
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Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf CountryJean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner | pp. 1–26
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Appendix: Bibliography of Bruce Rigsby | pp. 27–36
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Reconstructions
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Connecting ThaypanicBarry Alpher | pp. 39–60
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Regions without borders: Related rock art landscapes of the Laura Basin, Cape York PeninsulaNoelene Cole | pp. 61–84
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The Flinders Islands and Cape Melville people in historyPeter Sutton | pp. 85–104
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Fission, fusion and syncretism: Linguistic and environmental changes amongst the Tangkic people of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern AustraliaPaul Memmott, Erich Round, Daniel Rosendahl and Sean Ulm | pp. 105–136
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World views
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Groups, country and personhood on the upper Wenlock River, Cape York Peninsula: Donald Thomson’s Kaanju genealogiesBenjamin Smith | pp. 139–158
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Hyponymy and the structure of Kuuk Thaayorre kinshipAlice Gaby | pp. 159–178
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Possession in Kuku-Thaypan through a comparative lensMary Laughren | pp. 179–198
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Correlation of textual and spatial reference: This and thatFrancesca Merlan | pp. 199–218
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Contacts and contrasts
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Botanists, Aborigines and native plants on the Queensland frontierMarcia Langton | pp. 221–240
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‘There is no truth whatever as regards any Aboriginal being flogged by the Police’: Coen Police Camp, 1933, Cape York PeninsulaJonathan Richards | pp. 241–262
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Multiple views of paradise: Perspectives on the Daintree rainforestChris Anderson | pp. 263–284
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Shared country, different stories: A post-settler vignetteDavid Trigger | pp. 285–302
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Transformations
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Born, signed and named: Naming, country and social change among the Bentinck IslandersNicholas Evans | pp. 305–336
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The problem of ‘tribal names’ in eastern Australia: The Kuku Yalanji exampleRay Wood | pp. 337–360
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Going forward holding back: Modern bicultural livingDavid Thompson | pp. 361–382
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Same but different: Understanding language contact in Queensland Indigenous settlementsIlana Mushin, Denise Angelo and Jennifer Munro | pp. 383–408
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The story of Old Man Frank: A narrative response to questions about language shift in northern Cape York PeninsulaHelen Harper | pp. 409–432
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Repatriations
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On the edges of their memories: Reassembling the Lamalama cultural record from museum collectionsLindy Allen | pp. 435–454
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Making gambarr: It belongs to me, I belong to itJohn B. Haviland | pp. 455–480
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Index of places | pp. 481–482
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Index of languages, language families and groups | pp. 483–486
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General index | pp. 487–492
Cited by (4)
Cited by four other publications
Wallis, Lynley, Eva Martellotta, Mia Dardengo, Heather Burke, Noelene Cole, Bryce Barker, Laura Rangers, Cape Melville, Waarnthuurr-iin Aboriginal Corporation & Munthiwarra Aboriginal Corporation
Yeatman, Bernadine & Denise Angelo
2024. Recognising Yarrie Lingo, the creole language of Yarrabah community in far north-eastern Queensland
Australia. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 ► pp. 219 ff. 
Cole, Noelene
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General