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Title Aboriginal placenames : naming and re-naming the Australian landscape / editors, Luise Hercus, Harold Koch.

Imprint Canberra : ANU E Press, ©2009.
Publication Info. ©2009

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Series Aboriginal history monograph series ; 19
Aboriginal history monograph series ; 19.
Contents Introduction: Old and new aspects of Indigenous place-naming / Harold Koch and Luise Hercus --$tNSW & ACT. Aboriginal placenames around Port Jackson and Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia: Sources and uncertainties / Val Attenbrow -- Reinstating Aboriginal placenames around Port Jackson and Botany Bay / Jakelin Troy and Michael Walsh -- The recognition of Aboriginal placenames in New South Wales / Greg Windsor -- New insights into Gundungurra place naming / Jim Smith -- The methodology of reconstructing Indigenous placenames: Australian Capital Territory and south-eastern New South Wales / Harold Koch --$tVictoria. Toponymic books and the representation of Indigenous identities / Laura Kostanski -- Reviving old Indigenous names for new purposes / Laura Kostanski and Ian D. Clark -- Reconstruction of Aboriginal microtoponymy in western and central Victoria: Case studies from Tower Hill, the Hopkins River, and Lake Boga / Ian Clark --$tSouth Australia & Central Australia. 'Aboriginal names of places in Southern South Australia' Placenames in the Norman B. Tindale collection of papers / Paul Monaghan -- Why Mulligan is not just another Irish name: Lake Callabonna, South Australia / J.C. McEntee -- Murkarra, a landscape nearly forgotten: The Arabana country of the noxious insects, north and northwest of Lake Eyre / Luise Hercus -- Some area names in the far north-east of South Australia / Luise Hercus -- Placenames of central Australia: European records and recent experience / Richard Kimber --$tNorthern Australia. Naming Bardi places / Claire Bowern -- Dog-people: The meaning of a north Kimberley story / Mark Clendon -- 'Where the spear sticks up': The variety of locatives in placenames in the Victoria River District, Northern Territory / Patrick McConvell -- 'This place already has a name' Melanie Wilkinson, / R. Marika and Nancy M. Williams -- Manankurra: What's in a name? Placenames and emotional geographies / John J. Bradley and Amanda Kearney -- Kurtjar placenames / Paul Black.
Summary "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."--Publisher's description.
Language English.
Subject Names, Geographical -- Australia.
Noms géographiques -- Australie.
Anthropology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
Names, Geographical
Australia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRv8PPH7gCqhkJ8DK8bM
Genealogy.
History & Archaeology.
Related Historical Sciences.
Added Author Hercus, L. A. (Luise Anna), 1926-2018.
Koch, Harold.
ISBN 9781921666094 (electronic bk.)
1921666099 (electronic bk.)
9781921666087 (print version)
Standard No. AU@ 000044620132
AU@ 000045651997
AU@ 000051573723
AU@ 000058360061
AU@ 000060581184
GBVCP 1008653047

 
    
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