Description of Kaiadilt culture; historic development of Tangkic languages; history of European contact and establishment of Mornington Mission; present linguistic situation, decline of indigenous languages because of Kriol and English varieties; analysis of Kayardild phonology,…
This book builds on R.M.W. Dixon's most influential work on the indigenous languages of Australia over the past forty years, from his trailblazing grammar of Dyirbal published in 1972 to later grammars of Yidin (1971) and Warrgamay (1981). 'Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, an…
This book builds on R.M.W. Dixon's most influential work on the languages of North Queensland. It brings together studies in the fields of phonology, syntax, language contact, and language attrition, illustrated with examples of the unusual and theoretically significant features…
This book tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and marriage exchange. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborig…
A critique of liberal multiculturalism through a study of state-aboriginal relations in Australia, employing an innovative hybrid of theoretical approaches from anthropology, political theory, linguistics, and psychoanalysis.
This volume explores liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Povinelli draws on 17 years of ethnographic research explaining that, while aboriginal peoples have an official "place" in Australia, they must uphold stereotypically authent…
Winner of the 2013 David Unaipon Award. In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven takes her readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical and still achingly real. Over three parts, she takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique, contemporary twist. In …
Covers many areas of sociolinguistics with examples from around the world, including Njamal kinship terminology (p.21-7) and Walbiri tyiliwiri secret language (p.154-6).
Covers many areas of sociolinguistics with examples from around the world, including Njamal kinship terminology (p.21-7) and Walbiri tyiliwiri secret language (p.154-6).
The emergence of anthropology in Britain coincided with the publication of Darwin's book on the origin of species. In the context of inescapable questions about the natural history of our own species, Australian Aborigines were assigned the role of exemplars par excellence of be…
The author, an anthropologist, reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body - claims that circulate in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites w…
"In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate…
"A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert. The outcome of fieldwork conducted in the area in the 1980s and 1990s, it was originally published in French as Les…
"A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert. The outcome of fieldwork conducted in the area in the 1980s and 1990s, it was originally published in French as Les…
An arrangement of Bates ethnographic manuscripts originally prepared during work for the Western Australian Government (1904-1912) for a proposed book of the same title; includes detailed editorial commentary concerning arrangement, deletion and sources and an introductory biogr…
This book presents the first comprehensive survey of being a local, in particular in Australia. In Australia the paradox is that the locals are not indigenous peoples but migrants with a specific ethnic heritage who became localised in time to label other migrants as the newcome…
