Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country

Editors

Jean-Christophe Verstraete | University of Leuven

Diane Hafner | University of Queensland

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ISBN 9789027244543 | EUR 110.00 | USD 165.00

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.18

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii

General maps | pp. ix–x

Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country

Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner | pp. 1–26

Appendix: Bibliography of Bruce Rigsby | pp. 27–36

Reconstructions

Connecting Thaypanic

Barry Alpher | pp. 39–60

Regions without borders: Related rock art landscapes of the Laura Basin, Cape York Peninsula

Noelene Cole | pp. 61–84

The Flinders Islands and Cape Melville people in history

Peter Sutton | pp. 85–104

Fission, fusion and syncretism: Linguistic and environmental changes amongst the Tangkic people of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia

Paul Memmott, Erich Round, Daniel Rosendahl and Sean Ulm | pp. 105–136

World views

Groups, country and personhood on the upper Wenlock River, Cape York Peninsula: Donald Thomson’s Kaanju genealogies

Benjamin Smith | pp. 139–158

Hyponymy and the structure of Kuuk Thaayorre kinship

Alice Gaby | pp. 159–178

Possession in Kuku-Thaypan through a comparative lens

Mary Laughren | pp. 179–198

Correlation of textual and spatial reference: This and that

Francesca Merlan | pp. 199–218

Contacts and contrasts

Botanists, Aborigines and native plants on the Queensland frontier

Marcia Langton | pp. 221–240

‘There is no truth whatever as regards any Aboriginal being flogged by the Police’: Coen Police Camp, 1933, Cape York Peninsula

Jonathan Richards | pp. 241–262

Multiple views of paradise: Perspectives on the Daintree rainforest

Chris Anderson | pp. 263–284

Shared country, different stories: A post-settler vignette

David Trigger | pp. 285–302

Transformations

Born, signed and named: Naming, country and social change among the Bentinck Islanders

Nicholas Evans | pp. 305–336

The problem of ‘tribal names’ in eastern Australia: The Kuku Yalanji example

Ray Wood | pp. 337–360

Going forward holding back: Modern bicultural living

David Thompson | pp. 361–382

Same but different: Understanding language contact in Queensland Indigenous settlements

Ilana Mushin, Denise Angelo and Jennifer Munro | pp. 383–408

The story of Old Man Frank: A narrative response to questions about language shift in northern Cape York Peninsula

Helen Harper | pp. 409–432

Repatriations

On the edges of their memories: Reassembling the Lamalama cultural record from museum collections

Lindy Allen | pp. 435–454

Making gambarr: It belongs to me, I belong to it

John B. Haviland | pp. 455–480

Index of places | pp. 481–482

Index of languages, language families and groups | pp. 483–486

General index | pp. 487–492

Cited by

Cited by 3 other publications

Cole, Noelene

2022. Aboriginal rock art of the Laura valleys: One landscape, many Stories. In Histories of Australian Rock Art Research, ► pp. 257 ff.

Palmer, Bill, Dorothea Hoffmann, Joe Blythe, Alice Gaby, Bill Pascoe & Maïa Ponsonnet

2022. Frames of spatial reference in five Australian languages. Spatial Cognition & Computation 22:3-4 ► pp. 225 ff.

Yeatman, Bernadine & Denise Angelo

2023. Recognising Yarrie Lingo, the creole language of Yarrabah community in far north-eastern Queensland Australia. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

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