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Author: Peter Bindon
Publisher: Anthropology Department Western Australian Museum
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication assembles several separately published word lists from South-West Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects. It is not a dictionary but a basic word list. Two listings in alphabetical order are provided: one of Aboriginal words and one of an equivalent English word or phrase.
Author: H. Lambers
Publisher: Apollo Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781742585642
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A thorough revision and expansion of Pate and Beard's Kwongan--Plant Life of the Sandplain (1984)"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Rob Amery
Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
Published: 2016-02-22
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1925261255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book tells the story of the renaissance of the Kaurna language, the language of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, principally over the earliest period up until 2000, but with a summary and brief discussion of developments from 2000 until 2016. It chronicles and analyses the efforts of the Nunga community, and interested others, to reclaim and relearn a linguistic heritage on the basis of mid-nineteenth-century materials. This study is breaking new ground. In the Kaurna case, very little knowledge of the language remained within the Aboriginal community. Yet the Kaurna language has become an important marker of identity and a means by which Kaurna people can further the struggle for recognition, reconciliation and liberation. This work challenges widely held beliefs as to what is possible in language revival and questions notions about the very nature of language and its development.
Author: Claire Bowern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-03-16
Total Pages: 1179
ISBN-13: 0198824971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. Australian languages have long played an important role in diachronic and synchronic linguistics and are a vital testing ground for linguistic theory. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive and accessible guide to the their vast linguistic diversity. This volume fills that gap, bringing together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide an up-to-date guide to all aspects of the languages of Australia. The chapters in the book explore typology, documentation, and classification; linguistic structures from phonology to pragmatics and discourse; sociolinguistics and language variation; and language in the community. The final part offers grammatical sketches of a selection of languages, sub-groups, and families. At a time when the number of living Australian languages is significantly reduced even compared to twenty year ago, this volume establishes priorities for future linguistic research and contributes to the language expansion and revitalization efforts that are underway.
Author: Bruce Shaw
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0855757779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Joan Martin was born in the country town of Morawa, Western Australia, in 1941. She was a proud Widi woman whose traditional territory extended from Geraldton eastwards into the salt-lake area. Joan led an exciting and adventurous life, from life in the bush to school in Perth, and back again. But it was a life with great challenges, including efforts to avoid Native Welfare, so as not to be shipped off to a mission, and her later very public battle with Homeswest for the right to live in peace in her own home. Her legacy includes her work on native title, and her art.
Author: Brenda L. Croft
Publisher: Western Australia State Government
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Embracing a period of nearly two centuries, South West Central, includes a reproduction of an 1833 ink drawing by Gyallipurt and twenty-first-century digital re-takes on colonial representations by Dianne Jones. In between is a myriad of outstanding visual expressions by Nyoongar artists that reveal their relationships to their communities and traditional lands. Most painfully, they recall the forcing of people from their traditional lands into fringe camps, the destruction of their traditional practices and their being rendered invisible in their own country.
Author: David A. Keith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-15
Total Pages: 771
ISBN-13: 1107118433
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fully updated third edition provides a modern synthesis and review of the latest advances in understanding native vegetation across Australia.
Author: Aidan Davison
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2001-04-19
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780791449806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This discussion responds to the work of Langdon Winner, Albert Borgmann, Charles Taylor, Martin Heidegger, David Abram, and others."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Australian National Dictionary Centre
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compiled by the Australian National Dictionary Centre, this work records the words peculiar to given Australian regional communities.
Author: Kim Scott
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1922089230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A monumental family history of Australia's Wilomin Noongar people, this is a powerful story of community and belonging. Revealing the deep and enduring connections between family, country, culture, and history that lie at the heart of indigenous identity, this book—a mix of storytelling and biography—offers insight into a fascinating community.
