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  • Titel: Aboriginal placenames : naming and re-naming the Australian landscape
  • Enthält: Introduction: Old and new aspects of Indigenous place-naming / Harold Koch and Luise Hercus --$tNSW & ACT. Aboriginal placenames around Port Jackson and Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia: Sources and uncertainties
    Reinstating Aboriginal placenames around Port Jackson and Botany Bay / Jakelin Troy and Michael Walsh
    The recognition of Aboriginal placenames in New South Wales / Greg Windsor
    New insights into Gundungurra place naming / Jim Smith
    The methodology of reconstructing Indigenous placenames: Australian Capital Territory and south-eastern New South Wales / Harold Koch --$tVictoria. Toponymic books and the representation of Indigenous identities
    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 --$tSouth Australia & Central Australia. 'Aboriginal names of places in Southern South Australia' Placenames in the Norman B. Tindale collection of papers
    Why Mulligan is not just another Irish name: Lake Callabonna, South Australia / J.C. McEntee
    Murkarra, a landscape nearly forgotten: The Arabana country of the noxious insects, north and northwest of Lake Eyre / Luise Hercus
    Some area names in the far north-east of South Australia / Luise Hercus
    Placenames of central Australia: European records and recent experience / Richard Kimber --$tNorthern Australia. Naming Bardi places
    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.
  • Beteiligte: Hercus, L. A. [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Koch, Harold James [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
  • Erschienen: Canberra: ANU E Press, 2009
  • Erschienen in: Aboriginal history monograph series ; 19
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 9781921666094; 1921666099; 9781921666087
  • Schlagwörter: Names, Geographical Australia. ; Names, Geographical Australia ; Names, Geographical ; Sociology and anthropology ; HISTORY ; Australia & New Zealand ; Genealogy ; History & Archaeology ; Related Historical Sciences ; Australia ; Anthropology ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; Electronic books
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  • Anmerkungen: English
  • Beschreibung: "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.
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